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NEW YORK EDITION 





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NEW YORK, N. Y„ JANUARY 1, 1943 




Private Claims 



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Against Japan 
Being Studied 



Easterners with important 
prop "Tty interests in territory now 
enemy ' r upied are displaying in- 
creased interest in the problem of 
how they will come out after the 
war by recovery ^gj^property, reim- 
bursement by-Uncle Sam, or a foot- 
ing o't j&e hill by Japan. 

JZ fie Phirfp pines were covered by 
£he free U. S. Government insur- 
ance which was in effect until last 
July 1. Since that time the War 
Damage Corporation has covered — 
for a small fee — property in the 
territorial United States but the 
Philippines were not mentioned as 
within the scope of such coverage. 
A bill to include the Philippines 
was introduced in Congress, re- 
ferred to committee, and died with 
Congress. In any event it would 
be necessary to deviate from stand- 
ard W.D.C. practice and give uni- 
versal free coverage after July 1, 
as before, as' relatively few are in 
position to apply and pay for poli- 
cies. 



News Letter Becomes 
Newspaper 



As explained in an advertis- 
ing announcement on page 2 of 
this issue, the news letter hither- 
to issued by Starr, Park & 
Freeman, Inc., has been incor- 
porated into the New York Ed- 
ition, The Shanghai Evening 
Post & Mercury. Those on the 
mailing list of the news letter 
will receive the newspaper for 
one year without charge in view 
of the fact that up to now, con- 
tributions to United China Re- 
lief, Inc., have been regarded as 
the equivalent of subscription 
fee. From today, new subscrib- 
ers will pay $2 annually. 

Advertising is solicited and 
rates may be had ■from the 
Business Manager. No stock in 
this newspaper lias been or will 
lie offered to the public. 



War Outlook 
For Far East 
Encouraging 



Tentative proposed legislation 
was framed by . the legal depart- 
-mentjif-the Philippines High Com- 
missioner’s office to cover ‘ two 
points— a general moratorium tor 
Philippines obligations, and Gov 
ernment guarantee for lire in..w- 
ance premiums to prevent lapses 
in the case of captive policy-hold- 
ers. These bills w^^^pto the hands 



Repatriation 
Still A Hope 
In Washington 



t-erior, presumably may have been 
referred to the solicitor’s office for 
opinion, and if further dealt with 
would have to be introduced in 
Congress — but for some weeks, 
nothing has been heard about these 
two measures which in principle 
key on to the subjects previously 
mentioned. 

With Jan Marsman as a leading 
figure, the Philippine-American 
Chamber of Commerce in San Fran- 
cisco is trying to obtain reimburse- 
ment for Philippine war losses and 
also attack the subject of general 
economic rehabilitation or the 
Islands. 

Charles James Fox, Tientsin at- 
torney and newspaper publisher 
now T esident at 604 Bonair St., La 
Jolla, Calif., has prepared a writ- 
ten proposal on the subject of "Pri- 
vate Claims Against Japan” which 
invites formation of an organiza- 
tion to handle this whole matter. 
Text will be published next week. 



Despite a continued failure of 
the Japanese Government to re- 
spond to Washington’s offer of ap- 
proximately 1,800 Japanese names 
and permit arrangements for the 
second Far East repatriation to get 
under way, Washington authori- 
ties appear still confident 
repatriation will go throug, 

course. The Grb Y 

.fter a Yonkers so- 
short notice, 



By EARL H. LEAF 

Peering into 1943, American mili- 
tary, naval and civil administra- 
tion leaders are expressing confi- 
dence that the tide of battle in the 
Pacific and Orient will turn against 
the Japanese. 

United Nations' forces are not 
yet ready and equipped for a full- 
scale offensive due to concentra- 
tion of our military and naval 
might in Europe and Africa but 
even with the inadequate forces 
and equippage available they have 
been able to stop the Japanese in I 
their tracks and undertake impor- 
tant offensive actions in scattered 
yet strategic areas. 

The story of Allied defeats and 
retreats during most of 1942 makes 
a dolorous tale which need not be 
reviewed here. The significant fact, 
however, is that Japan seemingly 
has lost the terrii|le momentum that 
carried her to the shores of Hawaii 
and Australia. 

By year’s end, it is confidently 
believed, the Nipponese should be 
on their way home for a last stand. 

During 1942, most Americans 
were kept familiar with U. S. and 
United Nations actions in the 
Southwest Pacific, including Ma- 
laya, Netherlands East Indies, Phil- 
ippines, New Guinea, and the 
South Seas but the situation 
China, remained obscure. 



New Communication 
Lines to Far East 
Are Being Opened 



Post's Editor 
Tells How War 
Hit Shanghai ' 



t B. OPPER 



By FREDERICK 

The story of what happened to 
the Shanghai Evening Post and 
its personnel from the moment 
Japanese boarding parties went 
aboard the U.S.S. Wake and H.M.S. 
Peterel in the Whangpoo in the 
early morning *of December 8 (Far 
East time) is a fairly good mirror 
of what occurred generally in 



China Battleground 
,_was the battleground for 



Hudson again 
journ, could depart 
although it is expected that it 
take about a fortnight to complete 
travel safeguard measures and load 
Japanese repatriates and necessary 
supplies 

The news last week of Shanghai 
“internments” has not been fol- 
lowed by any further alarming de- 
velopments. Efforts have been 
made to ascertain just what these 
“internments” consist of, the lo- 
cality of the internees, and similar 
points, but thus far the officials 
interested have not received replies 
to queries. It is known that there 
were some previous similar actions 
at Chefoo and Tsingtao and the 
State Department has the names 
of 65 held at Shanghai, but is mak- 
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ing the year. Few of them 
decisive or conclusive but net f 
all were costly and wearing to 
aggressor. The Japanese undertc 
several offensive movements which 
might have become serious to 
China and the Allies but which 



meeting determined Chinese resis- 






The British invasion of Burma, 
with the aid of American air sup- 
port, was described as preliminary 
and exploratory. Far Easterners, 
who know that Burma is the key 
to eventual Japanese defeat were 
reassured by this recent action 
that the Allies have decided to end 
the stalemate in that section of 
Asia. 

Akyab, which is the goal of the 
present invading British column, 
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if only for that reason. 

From 4:30 a.m. until 10 a.m. that 
‘grey day in Shanghai the sole 
dence of Japan’s attack, save for 
the Rising Sun flag flying 
.Wake and the occasional drifting 
pieces of wreckage from the sunken 
Peterel, was the presence of innum- 
erable placards throughout the 
downtown area announcing a state 
and call ing on residents to 

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For the first time since PeSi^- 
Harbor, a permanent and reliable^ 
communication line seems in pro- 
cess of being established between 
American captives in the Far East 
and their anxious relatives and 
friends at home. 

The first thin wire for this line 
led to the Philippines. Nov/ it ap-% 
pears to include the whole Orient, 
although in all cases with certain 
rigid stipulations. 

What this evidently means is 
that Japan is at last belatedly mov- 
ing to honor her communicati 
obligation under the Geneva Con- 
vention, which she did not 
but to which she subscribed 
principle after the outbreak of. 
present conflict. 

There has been a sporadic 
of messages throughout the war, 
but with channels constantly shift- 
ing and with very little that any- 
one could count on. The Interna- 
tional Red Cross and the State De- 
partment, working through the 
neutral Swiss, have received and 
transmitted messages, but never 
with any great assurance of suc- 
cess. 



Con- 

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Washington Advir/ 



dence in the 'French Concession 
that part of the International Set- 
tlement south of Soochow Creek. 
But at about 10 a.m. trucks, loaded 
with Japanese troops and bluejack- 
ets, poured across the bridges and 
their occupants swarmed through 



petered out into nothingness after '“>• T >“ p ° st *'»• » lm » al > h ' 

----- first establishment to be visited by 

the newcomers. 



Herded Into One Room 
All employees were herded into 
one room by a non-commissioned 
officer and a dozen privates, waving 
mausers with carefree abandon. 
Names were taken, everybody was 
searched, our radio station was 
sealed and a general inspection of 
the premises was carried out. 

The next morning the chief of 
the Japanese Army Press Bureau 
"gave permission for the Post's i 
( Please turn to page 3) 



Extrality Soon 
Will Vanish 



The Shanghai Evening Post Carries On 



Forma! announcement of the de- 
tails of the agreement whereby the 
United States will relinquish extra- 
territorial privilege in China is ex- 
pected within a short time. From 
London will come corresponding 
word of a similar agreement deal- 
ing with British subjects. 

Although there will be a certain 
amount of official expressions of 
gratification, as between Washing- 
ton and London on the one side 
and Chungking on the other, it is 
already evident that the event will 
not be anything like the sensation- 
al turning-point which it would 
have been a few short years ago. 

War provides part of the answer, 
of course. With Japan in occupa- 
tion of China’s coastal areas and 
the treaty ports, holding captive 
most of the foreigners who nor- 
mally would be affected by extra- 
territoriality, the presence or ab- 
sence of such privilege becomes 
largely academic. The United States 
Court for China is not function- 
ing in Free China although there 
have been rumors that Judge Mil- 
ton J. Helmick (repatriated from 
Shanghai by the Gripsholm) might 
fly back to hold sessions at Kun- 
ming or Chungking if necessary. 

There are few American or Brit- 
ish businessmen in Free China now. 

(Please turn to page 2) 



Some fifteen years ago a group of young men 
started out to publish an American daily news- 
paper in Shanghai. The enterprise was under- 
taken with serious understanding of the difficulties 
and obligations involved. 

On several occasions it became necessary to 
state clearly the principles on which the Shanghai 
Evening Post was conducted and from 1937 on- 
ward it was necessary to emphasize them re- 
peatedly. 

A front page statement on December 16, 1937, 
over the signature of Cornelius V. Starr, declared 
that the newspaper's policy was to follow “the 
best American newspaper tradition of free speech, 
of fearless and hard-hitting editorials, realistic 
and non-partisan, and of straight news presenta- 
tion devoid of editorial bias.” Again, on July 17, 
1940, a statement signed by Cornelius V. Starr and 
Randall Gould said that “it has been our settled 
desire to operate upon principles of American policy 
in keeping with our American ownership and con- 
trol . . . Our policy has been at all times sympa- 
thetic to the only recognized Government of China 
... In questions affecting the Government and 
people of China, as on all other vital issues, we 
have spoken our mind honestly and freely for what 
we deemed the right. Perhaps a day may come 
when this will no longer be possible in Shanghai; 
in such event, we shall bow\with good grace and 
retire . . ” 

Pearl Harbor temporarily put an end to The 



Shanghai Evening Post in Shanghai. Our last issue 
there appeared on Saturday, December 6, 1941. 
There was no publication on Monday, December 
8. When a newspaper bearing our name appeared 
from our plant the following day it was no more 
our own than the pseudo-“National Government of 
China” now at Nanking is the true National 
Government of China now at Chungking. Our 
editor was denied participation and later was im- 
prisoned until his repatriation. Nevertheless, it 
is a source of deep regret to us that anything of 
the sort could happen, whether by force majeure or 
otherwise. 

Repeatedly, we stated principles under which 
The Shanghai Evening Post was conducted and we 
still hold to those principles. They involved an 
obligation. Unfortunate circumstances have made 
it appear that we have not lived up to that obliga- 
tion. We feel that we must now contrive to carry 
on in the spirit so often expressed to our friends 
in Shanghai. 

The New York Edition of The Shanghai Eve- 
ning Post and Mercury, of which this is the first 
issue, is an embodiment of that feeling. At as 
early a date as possible we hope to establish a 
Chungking Edition. Through them, we hope to 
keep alive the spirit of our original undertaking. 



CORNELIUS V. STARR 
RANDALL GOULD 
FREDERICK B. OPPER 



iio a li ;Yu n ica liu/, a set rnea~T 
and national headquarters in Wash- 
ington cnecked last month with 
international headquarters in Ge- 
neva as to the prospects,’ especially 
with regard to the Philippines 
which have been particularly cut 
off although there was an espe- 
cially large number of Americans 
there. 

The result was that Washington 
was advised it. might send tele- 
grams to officially identified in- 
ternees and prisoners of war in 
the Philippines through Tokyo. 
This caused hasty preparations, and 
provision for special fixed-text 
Christmas messages (six optional 
forms being provided). With the 
close of the year this admittedly 
4 expedient was discon- 



stopgap 
tinued. 

Red Cross officials now expect' 
to forward certain telegrams to all 
Far East Americans coming in the 
category just described — “officially 
identified civilian internees 
prisoners of • 



apd 

— ' — and the ques- 
tion of who is officially identified 
is left up to the office of the Pro- 
vost Marshal General in the War 
Department. Next of kin have been 
notified as to who these persons 
S ° fai ’ they numb er around 
including internees and 
prisoners at Shanghai, Woosung 
and other points, and Philippines 
internees at Santo Tomas In 
alphabetical order up to the letter 
D. The list is being gradually ex- 
tended constantly, but it has never 
been fully published. 



What May Be Sent 

The rule will be that under ordi- 
nary circumstances, telegrams may 
deal only with matters of “life and 
death” importance. In view of the 
long time that has passed since any 
regular comunications haye been 
exchanged, however, each internee 
or prisoner may receive one mes- 
sage of a more casual nature 
merely to bring him, in some de- 
gree, up-to-date on happenings 
concerning his immediate family. 

In the matter of mail, the situa- 
tion is still far from clear. The 
Provost Marshal • General's office 
allows the post office to accept 
letters (postage free) addressed 
either to officially br unofficially 
notified internees and prisoners. 
But this seems to be based on an 
assumption rather than guaranteed 
fact. 




Page Tw6 



THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Friday, January 1, 1943 





Tibet's Dalai Lama celebrated 
his ninth birthday December 17. 

A. Brock Park has returned from 
London after several months 
England. 

Hiram Merriman is on a West 
Coast trip interviewing former 
Philippine residents for O. S. S. 

Anna Louise Strong has been at 
Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer Studios 
Hollywood writing the script on a 
story of the Russian guerillas. 

U. S. Harkson is assuming charge 
of an important Far East desk for 
Office of Strategic Services in 
Washington. 

H. Stewart MacoDanld has re- 
signed as legal adviser to the 
Philippines High Commissioner and 
may soon enter the army. 

Anne Neprud is now a freshman 
at Swarthmore, and Mary and 
Betty are at Milwaukee Downer 
Seminary. 

s W. R. Herod, vice-chairman of 
£he Hoard of Directors of the 
United China Relief, Inc., has 
joined the U. S. Air Corps as Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel. 

Life in New York became bear- 
able to former Harbin residents in 
this metropolis last week when the 
mercury nose-dived to three de- 
grees below zero. 

In a special shortwave holiday 
broadcast President Quezon told 
Filipinos that soon “Christmas will 
be once more as we knew it in the 
past.” 

Senora Manuel Quezon, wife of 
President Quezon, was a patient a( 
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti- 
more for treatment of an undis- 
posed ailment. 

Dr. J. Henry Carpenter, Chair- 
°f the Board of Directors of 
sco, Inc., has returned to the 
ed States after a trip to Chung- 
ng and the Chinese interior. 
Please send to our circulation de- 
partment names of friends who 
would like to see Sample copies, 
mailed post free without obliga- 
tion. . & 

Betty Graham, formerly of Shang- 
hai and Chungking who is now 
with International News Service in 
Washington, hopes to finish a book 
by February. 

Hemingway, who visited 
ly this year, 

- ij~tg- combat: - 

c a of an OWI desk job, 
Ed Sullivan reports. 

W.A. Reed, retired employee of 
the Standard Oil Comany, died in 
Shanghai on December 8 of natural 
causes, according to a Red Cross 
report to H. C. Reed. 

Peter Chuh, nephew of China's 
Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek is 
a recent graduate of the U. S. Army 
Air Force navigation class for ca- 
dets. 

The American Red Cross has re- 
ported that Brig. General Vicente 
Lim of the Philippine Army, miss- 
ing since the fall of Bataaan, is "safe 
and well” but no word was re- 
ceived of his whereabouts. 

Major Arthur Bassett, former 
chairman of the American Advis- 
ory Committee in China, has ac- 
cepted membership on the program 
committee of the United China Re- 
lief, Inc. 

Neill James, formerly of Japan 
and known as "the petticoat vaga- 
bond” traveler and writer, suffered 
a broken leg and other injuries in a 
recent fall while climbing Popoca- 
tapetl in Mexico. 

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Smith came 
to New York City from California, 
then visited Helen's people in Bos- 
ton over the New Year. While in 
New York they stop at the Savoy- 
Plaza. 

Carl Neprud is taking leave from 
his job in Washington to spend 
Christmas with his family in Ann 
Arbor, Michigan, and then will visit 
bis family's farm in Coon Valley, 
Wis. 

Newsweek magazine's list of as- 
sistant editors includes two former 
Shanghai newspapermen-“Colonel" 
Henry Cavendish, onetime rotund 
reporter for the Shanghai Evening 
Post & Mercury, and Mark Gayn. 

A Correspondents’ Fund has been 
established as a corporation by the 
Overseas Press Club of America to 
aid families of war correspondents 
killed in line of duty, 10 having al- 
ready thus perished during the 
present conflict. 

Mrs. Ensor writes from Van- 
couver, B. C., that her son had 
been wounded but is now out of 
the hospital and back with his 
regiment in England, after a pro- 
motion to captain on his 22nd 
birthday. 

Robert Aura Smith, formerly of 
Manila, author of two books on 
Pacific problems, and now chief of 
the OWI in India, is in Washing- 
ton this week on official business, 



intending to return to New Delhi 
in two or three weeks. 

H. Hessell Tiltman, author of 
several books about the Far East 
and frequent visitor to China, is 
the New York correspondent for 
a British chain of newspapei-s, with 
offices in the Royalton Hotel.* 

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sprague, after 
spending four months on a ranch 
near Sante Fe, N. M., have gone 
to live in Washington, where Chick 
will be associated with Chief Meyer, 
also of Standard-Vacuum, a fellow 
passenger on the Gripsholm. 

Glenn Babb, onetime Japan Ad- 
vertiser editor who subsequently 
represented Associated ' Press 
Tokyo and Peiping, is doing a daily 
interpretative column on war de- 
velopments for A. P. in New York 
where he is day cable editor. 

Don King, ex-secretary of the 
American Chamber of Commerce in 
Shanghai and former Shanghai 
manager of the United Press, now a 
unit publicity director at Warner 
Bros.’ Studio in Hollywood, is in 
charge of publicity on “Mission to 
Moscow” by Ambassador Davies. 

Old China Hands dusted off their 
memories over the New Year’s 
holiday to greet friends with 
“Kung Hsi Fa Ts'ai,” well-known 
phrase around this time of the year 
and' others recalled another famous 
saying during the holiday period— 
“cumshaw.” 

Clarence Kuangson Young, Chi- 
nese Consul-General at Manila, one- 
time head of the China Press in 
Shanghai, graduate of Princeton U., 
has been slain by the Japanese 
military authorities, according to 
Chinese escapees arriving in 
Chungking from Manila. 

Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer,, 
author, naturalist and leader of- 
many expeditions into odd. corners 
of Asia, broke his leg in a three- 
foot fall near his home at Cole- 
brook, Conn., while enjoying a walk 
betwixt sessions at his typewriter 
writing a book to be called “Under 
a Lucky Star." 

Far East photos are desired by 
the Government, especially air- 
views, industrial installations, air- 
fields, highways, docks, harbors, 
coastlines, beaches, canals, rivers, 
railroads; maijj 

u 1 , lyew \ork~CIfy. 

Problems of a permanent peace 
in the Pacific are discussed in the 
current issue of Contemporary 
China, published by the Chinese 
News Service, with a reprint of a 
study on the subject made by Dr. 
S. R. Chow of the National Wuhan 
University. 

Vice-Admiral William A. Glass- 
ford, Jr., former commander of the 
Yangtze Patrol and for a time in 
charge of American Far East naval 
forces, heads a special joint Army 
and Navy mission at Dakar which 
is fitting airports, harbor facilities 
and French ships into Allied war 
schemes. 

Lawrence Impey, former Peiping 
correspondent for Brtish news- 
papers, is staying at the Royalton 
Hotel in New York City, arriving 
in this city from Peiping via 
Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore 
and Australia, keeping just one 
jump ahead of the Japanese most 
of the way. 

Helen K. Powell, formerly with 
the office of the Commercial 
Attache in Tokyo and Shanghai 
and one-time wcretary to Ambas- 
sador Nelson T. Johnson, is now 
connected with the Institute of 
Current World Affairs, 522 Fifth 
Avenue, New York, and is com- 
piling and editing the letters of 
Charles R. Crane, former Minister 
to China. 



Are }ou Bombproof? 
Here’s Your Chance 

A bombproof circulation manager 
can get a job on a newspaper more 
or less on the edge of the Far East. 
Editor & Publisher magazine for 
December 26 carries an ad reading: 

“Must be able to handle boys. 
Good personality. Aggressive, but 
not obnoxiously so. Prefer man 
who won't get panicky if bombs 
fall on Dutch Harbor or closer . . .” 
The signature reads: “Anchorage 
Times, Anchorage. Alaska.” 



Chiang’s Speeches 
In Booklet Form 

A collection of the speeches and 
messages of Generalissimo Chiang 
Kai-shek since Pearl Harbor has 
been prepared and published in 
booklet form by the Chinese News 
Service under the title, "All We 
Are and All We Have." 



Extrality Ending 

( Continued from page 1) 

The missionaries there are not only 
prepared to do without extraterri- 
toriality, but for years there has 
been a feeling among missionaries 
all over China that their relations 
with the Chinese might actually 
be improved by doing away 
this special status. In 1926 a mis- 
sionary group at Tientsin actually 
tried to renounce extraterritoriality, 
although the attempt failed when 
Uncle Sam advised them that it 
was impossible to create special po- 
sition for any American citizen. 

In general, China Hands have 
long discounted in advance .the ef- 
fects of giving up extraterritorial- 
ity. They, knew that a modern 
China could not long tolerate a 
state of affairs now out of date 
and abolished everywhere else. Had 
war not come, extraterritoriality 
unquestionably would have been 
abolished before now. Quiet nego- 
tiations to this end almost came 
to completion about 1932. Those 
with expectation of continuing to 
operate in China, whether for busi- 
ness, religious or other purposes, 
have been making their plans on 

basis of living under China's own 
laws, Chinese-administered. 

Many believe that there will be 
solid benefits from the new state 
of affairs. Extraterritorial status 
has steadily meant less anyway, 
but it stood as a barrier to good- 
will as between Chinese and for- 
eigners. At least in theory, foreign 
trade was restricted to the treaty 
ports whereas the Chinese will now 
presumably throw open the coun- 
try without formal restraint, in 
that respect at least although the 
precise conditions will depend on 
the text of the treaty. 

The Treaty of Nanking, signed 

. 1842, first recognized British ex- 
traterritorial rights and incidental- 
ly opened Shanghai and four other 
ports to trade. This initial state- 
ment was rather vague, beginning: 
“Whenever a British subject has 
to complain of a Chinese he must 
first proceed to the Consulate and 
state his grievance. The Consul will 
thereupon inquire into the merits 
of the case and do liis utmost to 
arrange it amicably . . There 
was corresponding provision with 
regard to complaints by Chinese. 
The Wanghsia Treaty betweer 



United States and China in 1844 
defined extraterritoriality more ex- 
plicitly, and other countries de- 
rived rights through their “most 
favored nations” clauses. 

At the present time there is great 
confusion on legal matters due to 
the fact of war. Abolition of extr 
territoriality during wartime will 
add to this confusion. The New 
York Edition, Shanghai Evening 
Post & Mercury expects to present 
articles designed to clear the juri- 
dical status of China Trade Act 
companies and similar points 
the near future. 



Repatriation 

( Continued from page 1) 
ing no full publication, though next 
of kin or business associates have 
been advised. 

John O'Donnell recently wrote, 
in his regular Washington column 
for the New York Daily News: 
"For more than three months, 
the Swedish luxury liner Grip- 
sholm has been riding at anchor 
in the Hudson River, waiting the 
word when she will sail with her 
freight of Red Cross supplies for 
the Japanese-held prisoners of war. 

"Reason for the delay is a hitch 
in the involved bargaining between 
the Japanese and our State Depart- 
ment concerning the exchange of 
interned civilians. There are cer- 
tain Japanese civilians that Tokio 
is most anxious to have returned 
to their homeland. And there are 
■tain Japanese citizens this na- 
tion is anxious to keep a finger on 
because of tie-ups with enemy 
plotting and espionage in the days 
immediately before Pearl Harbor." 

The State Department is under- 
stood to have furnished the names 
of approximately 1,800 Japanese it 
able to offer for repatriation, but 
the point has never been made 
clear as to whether Tokyo asked 
for specific individuals, and if so, 
whether these were cleared for re- 
patriation by the Government’s in- 
vestigators. One recent theory has 
been that Tokyo was not anxious 
to turn loose in Japan such a large 
number of Japanese fresh from 
America and able to puncture a 
good deal of carefully-fostered Nip- 
home propaganda. 



Chinese Journalists 
Will Visit America 

Three leading Chinese journalists 
are leaving Chungking for the 
United States as guests of the Of- 
fice of War Information to spend 
several months observing the 
American scene and viewing Sino- 
American relations as it operates 
in this country. 

Leader of the mission will be 
Wang Yun-heng, editor in chief of 
the Ta Kung Pao, China's leading 
newspaper, T. C. Tang, chief ed- 
itor of the English Department of 
the Central News Agency, and L. S. 
Peng, chief of the broadcasting 
section of the Chungking Interna- 
tional Broadcasting Station, XGOY. 

The mission will visit American 
war industrial plants, leading 
American newspapers, press agen- 
cies, radio stations and radio net- 
works, attend meetings for cp- 
ordinating the United NationsC*’ar 
effort, adviJe American govern- 
mental agencies on China’s reac- 
tions to American publicity and 
propaganda ef forts and -study all 
aspects of Chinese-American rela- 
tions in time of war. 



Transport Official 
Executed In China 

Charged with corruption and em- 
bezzlement, Lin Shih-liang, head of 
the transport division of the 
Chinese Ministry of Finance, was 
executed by Generalissmo Chiang 
Kai-shek. 

Lin was specifically charged with 
the theft of 3,000,000 yuan (U.S. 
$1,575,000) when he was in charge 
of transferring Chinese property on 
the Burma Road early this year. 

His conviction came after the 
Government had finished a thor- 
ough investigation of oft-repeated 
reports of squeeze and corruption 
among certain minor officials in 
connection with Burma Road 
transport. — — , 

Lin had been a rather obscure 
official until given this post of re- 
sponsibility and importance to the 
Chinese war effort. His trial and 
execution occurred in Kunming. 



Starr, Park & Freemax, Ixc. 



FAR EAST SECTION, 

News Letter No. 87. 

January 1, 1943. 

Dear Friends: 

This is our swan song as a news letter — but our greeting to 

the revived Shanghai evening Post & Mercury. As of today, news letter 

becomes newspaper'. Vie hope you like it. 

Reasons behind the metamorphosis are largely self-evident. We now 
hope to give you more than ever, while at the same time- we shall get 
a modest price for it. However, we feel obligated to consider the 
fact that for some time we have regarded contributions to u nited China 
Relief as a form of payment for the news letter. So many' of our 
readers have contributed generously to U.c.R. out of gratitude for 
the letter that we have decided to give a free one-year subscription 
to everyone who has been on the news letter mailing list. x f your 
conscience hurts you may send in a subscription but we leave it up 
to you. If on the other hand you feel that your U .C.R. subscription 
was of such size as to entitle you to special consideration, please 
tell us and we will see what can be done. In general, we prefer not 
to make our calculations more than a year ahead. This looks like a 
"for the duration" enterprise and nobody knows the duration. 

Our subscription charge is to be $£ a year, based on a price of 5<f 
for single copies. Advertising is solicited. You will note that 
at the outset, the ^tarr group of companies is doing almost all of 
the advertising, just as they met the whole of the cost of the news 
letter. They wish no monopoly on this good work and will gladly 
cut down their space to make room for other cash customers.! K ates 
may be had on request to the Business Manager. 

We have preferred not to publicize in advance what we intended to do, 
and might not. Now that we - are really under way on our New York Mition, 
Shanghai Evening Post & *ercury, we hope that we may have your 
co-operation — in getting news, in getting subscribers, in getting 
the lifeblood of advertising. Please continue to send in letters 
with items of interest to your fellow-Far fiasterners. We’ll pay for 
contributions where this seems in order, and especially where regularity 
can be guaranteed. If our friends continue to give anything like the 
enthusiastic help of the past, this venture should be a success. 

Cordially, 







Krs. a. H. Lennox 



Friday, January 1, 1943 



THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Page Three 



Post’s Editor 
Tells How War 
Hit Shanghai 

(Continued from page 1) 
tinued publication.” Since from the 
moment Japan and the United 
States were at war it was impos- 
sible for any American to take au- 
thority for continuing publication, 
due to the fact that Shanghai sim- 
ultaneously became enemy territory 
under American law, it was obvi- 
ously impossible for any agreement 
with the Japanese Army to be bind- 
ing on the American publisher, C. 
V. Starr, then 10,000 miles away 
in New York. Needless to say pub- 
lication of a paper using the name 
"Shanghai Evening Post & Mer- 
cury” under Japanese censorship 
and Japanese permission was as 
distasteful to him as it was illegal. 
Such considerations failed to weigh 
very heavily on the Japanese mil- 
itary, as"V}ght be suspected. 

As one of Xbe_ conditions for pub- 
lishing a p&figC ‘he Japanese in- 
sisted that the winter and H. G. W. 
Woodhead^ G.'B.E., British colum- 
nist, mjAaf have nothing to do with 
the new venture. While such in- 
sistence was an ominous indication 
of what was to come later it nev- 
ertheless was more than satisfac- 
tory to both of us since it relieved 
us immediately of any connection 
with an enemy sponsored and dom- 
inated project. 

Pseudo-“Post” Appears 

Beginning on December 9 the new 
so-called “Shanghai Evening Post 
& Mercury” made its appearance. 
The American United Press service 
was no longer available, having 
been closed by the Japanese, and 
consequently the paper used Domei, 
Transocean, (Nanking) Central 
News, Havas, Stefani and Tass ser- 
vices in that order. Domei, never 
distinguished for impartiality, out- 
did itself in grandiose claims of 
Japanese superiority and vicious 
slanderous attacks against the 
Unit,etTT7ations. 

The Russian Tass agency was so 
deeply concerned with develop- 
ments on the Soviet-Nazi front that 
it gave little attention to develop- 
ments in the Pacific theater of 
i so, however, those neu- 



the Japanese with their new en- 
terprise apparently considered Tass 
a stick of dynamite and leaned over 
backwards in attempting to prevent 
anything remotely resembling an 
impartial Soviet view of the Pacific 
war from appearing. This feeling 
was heightened later when Lt. Mor- 
ita Matsuda, a former Princeton 
and University of Missouri student 
and assistant Army Press Bureau 
chief, told them to cut down their 
small Tass contribution? even fur- 
ther and to make it a point to use 
a Domei release as the lead story 
every day. 

Passive Resignation 

Meanwhile throughout Shanghai 
an initial nervousness had given 
way to a passive feeling of resig- 
nation. The Japanese cleverly had 
moved very slowly at first. They 
assured Americans and Britons 
that the "international” aspects of 
the city would continue and that 
nonresident had anything to fear 
from the Japanese who merely 
"wanted to preserve peace and or- 
der.” However as the control of 
the city passed into their hands 
more securely they began liquidat- 
ing foreign business concerns, fir- 
ing foreign employees, arresting 
enemy nationals, attaching foreign 
bank accounts, raiding godowns 
and issuing increasingly stringent 
regulations. 

Bus service in the International 
Settlement was halted, automobiles 
disappeared from the streets and 
bicycles took their place, prices 
moved upward steadily and surely, 
and Japanese civilians seeped 
throughout the city until they 
seemed almost to be in a majority 
south of the Creek. Constant prop- 
aganda directed at the Chinese 
hammered at the theme that Japan 
was saving Asia from Anglo-Amer- 
ican overlordship while at the same 
time propaganda directed at those 
same Anglo-Americans sought to 
prove that Japan had no evil in- 
tentions against individual Ameri- 
cans and Britons but sought only 
to "preserve peace and order” 
which had been mdde impossible 
by the "machinations of Roosevelt 
and Churchill." In neither case did 
the Japanese appear to make great 
headway. Pro-Chunking Chinese 
continued their anti-Japanese ac- 
tivities in the city with assassina- 
-tions and bombings a common oc- 
curence. In fact they became so 
frequent that the Japanese finally 
forced every Chinese male to serve 
in a neighborhood "peace and or- 



der” group and areas where distur- 
bances occurred were blockaded for 
days with people in many cases 
dying of hunger and lack of med- 
ical attention. 

Chinese Leave Shanghai 

All during this period, however, 
a constant stream of Chinese were 
leaving Shanghai, many of them 
with the blessing of the Japanese 
to their homes in the country and 
many others slipping out to Free 
China. Foreigners likewise were 
making plans to leave and many 
of them did so although Japanese 
regulations made each foreigner 
carry an identity card with him 
in the city and prevented travel 
beyond Hungjao. Some foreigners 
successfully managed to make their 
way to Chungking while some were 
caught and imprisoned by the Jap- 
anese. 

However, it is unfortunate to 
relate that in many cases Ameri- 
cans and Britons seemed far more 
interested in their own immedi- 
ate welfare than in the larger 
aspects of a free world at war 
against aggression. Cases were not 
uncommon where Americans and 
Britons grew angry at fellow coun- 
trymen escaping from Shanghai to 
Chungking in order to bend their 
efforts toward defeating Japan on 
the grounds that “they merely jeop- 
ardize our position here.” Others 
went to even greater lengths “co- 
operating” with the Japanese in 
some cases to the extent of prepar- 
ing anti-American propaganda for 
them. Equally, however, there were 
those who refused to cooperate un- 
der any circumstances with the lo- 
cal Japanese officials and sabo- 
taged their efforts at every oppor- 
tunity. 

John Ahlers Stood Firm 

One such case that is perhaps 
deserving of special mention is that 
of John Ahlers, widely read finan- 
cial editor of the Evening Post. 
Mr. Ahlers, a liberal Aryan Ger- 
man who had fled Europe a few 
jumps ahead of the Gestapo, was 
retained on the Post under the new 
Japanese set up but he firmly re- 
fused to "cooperate,” writing eco- 
nomic comment in his column as 
he saw developments. The comment 
was not considered favorable to 
the Japanese “New Order in Great- 
er East Asia” hullabaloo by Kazu- 
maro Uno, a California-born Jap- 
anese who served as chief censor 
_of the “new style" Pos t. U no bega n 

jected, announced he had no in- 
tention of cutting his cloth to fit 
the new suit and continued as he 
had in the past. The result was he 
was promptly fired, preferring to 
shift for himself as best he could 
rather than take orders from the 
Japanese. 

One of the most difficult things 
for people to understand about 
Shanghai in the months after the 
outbreak of war, I have discovered 
since my return, is an appreciation 
of the fact that Americans were 
not interned there. Until June they 
and — Britons, Dutch and other al- 
lied nationals — were allowed almost 
unrestricted freedom. While identi- 
ty cards were required and they 
were not allowed to leave the city 
they nevertheless were virtually un- 
molested in. their private lives. In 
most cases they continued to live 
at their homes,’ their servants 
shopped and cooked for them, they 
could stroll about the streets, go 
to their places of husiness if they 
were still employed, spend their 
evenings at nightclubs or theaters 
and otherwise enjoy the hallucina- 
tion that things had been changed 
very little by the war. 

Correspondents Arrested 

On December 20, however, came 
a foretaste of the storm that lay 
beneath the surface. On .that day 
J. B. Powell, editor of the “China 
Weekly Review," Victor Keen, cor- 
respondent of the “New York Her- 
ald-Tribune,” and a number of for- 
eign businessmen were arrested by 
the Japanese Gendarmerie and held 
in the Bridge House, the apartment 
house on North Szechuan Road 
near the Central Post Office and 
the New Asia Hotel. Friends were 
not allowed to communicate with 
them and there was considerable 
apprehension over their fate. Both 
Powell and Keen were reported by 
a New York columnist to have 
been killed which resulted in an 
inquiry to the Gendarmerie by the 
Swiss Consulate. An entire after- 
noon of argument failed to secure 
the Swiss permission to see the 
two men and thereby convince 
themselves of their safety. They 
-finally had to be satisfied with 
written notes as evidence that the 
report was false. 

Keen, unharmed, was releasgjJ^in 
March and ultimately returned to 
this country aboard the Gripsholm. 
In the same month Powell was 
transferred from Bridge House to 
the Kiangwan military prison. 
Lack of sufficient food, the un- 



Returns To China 




Chinese News Service 

General Hsiung Wen-chill, head of 
the Chinese Military Mission to 
Washington, is now preparing for 
his return to Chungking with his 
entire staff, after ten months in 
the United States, leaving Colonel 
W. T. Tsai in Washington as liaison 
officer. 



bearable cold and primitive living 
conditions at both places resulted 
in serious injury to his feet. He 
was finally taken to a hospital 
where operations had to be per- 
formed that resulted in the loss of 
his toes. Like Keen, however, Pow- 
ell returned to America on the 
Gripsholm, being carried down the 
gangplank on a stretcher and taken 
to a hospital where he still is. 

Some of the others who were ar- 
rested on the same day were re- 
leased after investigations but six 
Britons were charged by the Jap- 
anese with espionage and sentenced 
to jail terms. They began serving 
their sentences at Kiangwan but 
conditions there were so indescrib- 
ably bad that they finally were 
taken to Ward Road jail. Some 
have been released but Gande, at 
least, is said to he there. 

(Continued next week, when Mr. 
Opper will relate his own experi- 
e nces o f Bridge I louse im p riso| t- 



I.P.R. Report 
Due Soon 

Delegates representing 12 coun- 
tries concluded a ten-day confer- 
ence of the Institute of Pacific Re- 
lations at Mont Tremblent, Que- 
bec, on December 14. For the first 
time in the history of the Insti- 
tute the meeting was held without 
the benefit of delegates from Ja- 
pan. On the other hand, for the 
first time, India and Korea and 
Free Thailand were invited to par- 
ticipate. 

The conference was devoted to 
discussions on the question of war- 
time and post-war cooperation of 
the United Nations in the Far East. 
The purpose of the Institute is to 
review data from all over the 
world and, as far as possible, to 
synthetize this material. It does not 
pass resolutions or make findings, 
does it advocate any partisan 
set of political or economic pro- 
grams. It relies on the members 
attending the meeting to stimulate 
as individuals a more fundamental 
study of the problems of the Pa- 
cific area in their respective coun- 
tries. 

Because of the war situation, the 
former practice of limiting the con- 
ference membership to private citi- 
zens only was extended to include 
a few members in government serv- 
ice from various countries. Be- 
cause of the nature of the confer- 
ence and methods of discussion, the 
press was excluded but a full re- 
port is pxomised by the Institute 
in the next week or two. 

The new officers elected for the 
coming year include Edgar J. Tarr 



ment.— Editor.) 



Building Homes 
For America ’s 
War Workers 



Army Boys to Sport 
Bright Red Ties 

Officers and soldiers of th,3 U. 
S. armed forces in China were 
blossoming out this week with — 
of all things — red neckties. 
Scowling M. P.’s were stumped 
what to do about it. 

Red neckties, bearing the 
monogram of Gen. Chiang Kai- 
shek, were presented to every 
officer and enlisted man of the 
American forces in Cliina as 
Xmas gifts from the Generalis- 
simo and Madame Chiang. With 
the neckwear went a box of 
Chinese candy. 



of Canada as chairman and Ad- 
miral H. E. Yarnell, of the United 
States; Chiang Mon-lin, China; G. 
H. C. Hart, Netherland East In- 
dies, and I. Clunies Ross, Australia, 
as vice-chairman. 

Many members attending the 
conference are well-known in the 
Far East and include fs-.o-Ke Al- 
fred Sze Major General S. M. Chu, 
C. L. Hsia, Shuhsi Hsu, K. C. Li 
for China and Younghill Kang for 
Korea. J. M. Elizalde represented 
the Philippines along with Arturo 
Rotor and Sebastian Ugarte and 
Urbano Zafra. Among the British 
delegation was Hugh Byas. Air 
Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Long- 
more, D. M. McDougall, Sir John. 
Pratt, Sir John Sansom, Sir Fred- 
erick Whyte. The Americans in- 
cluded Laughlin Currie, -Frederick 
V. Field, Fransis Burton Harrison, 
Stanley K. Hornbcck, Owen Lattir 
more. Major General Frank R. Mc- 
Coy, Edgar A. Mowrer, C. F. Remer, 
Elbert D. Thomas and Admiral 
Harry E. Yarnell. 



War Outlook ^ 

(Continued from page 1) 
belongs politically to Burma and 
geographically to India yet its oc- 
cupation will give the United Na- 
tions an air base for operations 
over Rangoon, Mandalay and the 
Burma Road and port facilities for 
land offensive towards the Irra- 
waddy and eventually the Burmese 
cities on that river. Already the 
action has caused the diversion of 
large forces of Japanese. 

Planes and Ships 
One- of the more encouraging 
signs is the ever-increasing size and 
potency of the American air a 
in China. Even though comprised | 
largely of second-line U. S. planes 
and equipment, it is headed and j 
manned by first-line personnel un- 
der command of Brig. Gen. Claire 
L. Chennault who is emerging as 
the outstanding air genius of 
World War II. 

Japanese shipping— her Achilles’ 
heel — has been hit hard. Her mei'- 
chant ships and men-o'-war have 
taken a terrific punishment and it 
is believed they are being sunk 
faster than they are being built. 



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THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Friday , January 1, 1943 



NEW YORK EDITION 

Wife S’tjangtjai Ettening Jlnst 
aiti) HJprruri} 

Published weekly by the Post-Mercury Co., Inc., 
101 Fifth Ave., New York City. Tel. ALgonquin 4-4300. 
Cornelius V. Starr, President 

Randall Gould, Editor 

Earl H. Leap, Managing Editor 

Kenyon D. Ettinger, Business Manager 

F. B. Opper, Associate- Editor. 

Editor Chungking Edition ( Projected ) 

Subscription rate, $2 a year postpaid; 5c a copy. 
Advertising rates on application to Business Man- 
ager. The Editor assumes no responsibility for return 
of unsolicited manuscripts. 



Here We Are Again! 

By Randall Gould 

This newspaper is new only in superficial aspects. 
It carries on the policies of the pre-war Shanghai 
Evening Post & Mercury whose name it bears. In 
its function of news dissemination it follows and 
will enlarge upon the Far East news letter of Starr, 
Park & Freeman, Inc. That we publish in New 
York City is only a detail fsoon we hope to have a 
Chungking Edition as well). The point is that 
wherever they are located, our readers are Far 
Easterners in their hearts. We shall strive to serve 
them in ways to which they are already accustomed. 

Of course there are unique angles to this enter- 
prise, and fresh problems to be solved. We ask your 
aid in solving them. It is obvious that we need 
news, advertising and circulation. Those things 
happen to be already partly-looked after and the 
rest is a matter of hard work aided by such co- 
operation as you will give. We believe that there 
are many functions we can discharge if we do our 
job right and receive the sort of collaboration al- 
ready much in evidence. 

First of all we must give news — everything vital 
and interesting that we can dig up pertaining to the 
Far East. The field is so tremendous that we are 
bound to fall down more or less but we will do our 
best. We shall try to give some guidance to intelli- 
gent thinking, in the Post tradition. Probably we 
can give an increased amount of personal assistance 
to anxious people who find it hard to get answers to 
questions; in this we shall not usurp any official 
functions but at least we can direct inquiries to the 
proper official sources. It is probable that in the 
course of our work we sh all find c ert ain fac ts of 
value'to the United Nations war effort, and possibly 
best kept out of print. In such cases we shall be 
discreet as regards publication, and we shall see to 
it that the information gets directly into the right 
hands for assistance in winning the war. We ask 
that; readers who believe they have any such infor- 
mation communicate with us in confidence. In 
what we print we must be bound by the code of 
wartime censorship, and we ask that this, too, be 
kept in mind. 

Most of all I hope that we can keep our little 
newspaper a human thing. The news letter was 
that, I think. It blundered cheerfully along and, al- 
most by accident, contrived to do a lot of good if 
the testimony of grateful readers is anything to go 
by. i In changing over to a newspaper format we 
should not find it necessary to become stuffed-shirt 
or tjo neglect the personal touch which makes a 
solid’ bond between writer and reader. 

One danger that we face is that of becoming a 
dumping-ground for heavy, uninteresting material. 
Instructions to our staff are to eliminate the dead- 
wood. For example, we seek to work with organi- 
zations which have Far East interests but we shall 
become house organs for nobody (even ourselves) 
because all such groups can best use their own re- 
ports, news letters and so on for matter of special- 
ized rather than general interest. Yet we hope to 
give ; a reasonably complete weekly picture of what 
is gbing on everywhere with reference to i the Far 
East, and people from the Far East. That is an as- 
spiration, not a promise. Don't shoot the piano- 
players — they’ll do their best. 



case if our leaders had been secretly plotting to 
take the initiative. We did not think of attack until 
we ourselves had been attacked. And we had to 
think of it a good while without having what it 
takes to attack on any considerable scale. 

Even today, a great deal remains to be done be- 
fore we shall^be at anything like our full fighting 
strength. But we are gaining power while at the 
same time feeding and munitioning our Allies in 
considerable degree. This is our year of attack. It 
is impossible to forecast how rapidly we shall pre- 
vail, but there is no doubt of our mood and growing 
capabilities. 



Year of Attack 

Premier Tojo tells his people that “the real war is 
just beginning.” This is one of his few true words. 
All we can add is that Tojo-san doesn’t know the 
half of it yet. 

We do not subscribe to the view that any early 
end to hostilities can be expected but we fell em- 
phatically that 1943 is to prove our year of attack. 
Even today, few of us fully realize how long it takes 
to change from a peacetime to a wartime basis — 
unless a nation has been quietly preparing for 



Japan was able to hurl great force at us on the 
instant because she had been so preparing, and in 
fact in some degree using China as laboratory for 
the major onslaught (after finding to her dismay 
that she could not quickly and easily beat China 
into submission as was expected back in 1937). The 
United States had been preparing somewhat, but 
on nothing like the scale which would have been the 
case if this country had been able to see the full 
possibilities, much less what would have been the 



Air-Transport Help for China 

There is no room for argument about the question 
of inadequate United States supplies for China. 
The situation is well described in "Time” magazine’s 
words: "One grievous black mark on the year’s 
record, limited by a transportation bottleneck that 
was made still tighter when the Japanese took 
Burma.” 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt has promised — 
"We shall find ways to send more.” We MUST 
find ways to send more. And we. can if we will. 

A key is found in the views of Col. Merion C. 
Cooper, chief of staff of the China Air Task Force 
under General Chennault. Home on his, first leave, 
Colonel Cooper says that the U. S. air forces at 
least: “maybe not a land army, but certainly our 
air force . . .” can be supplied by air transporta- 
tion, "one of the really great developments of this 
war.” He added that the possibilities of air trans- 
portation are nothing short of “fantastic.” 

The American genius for moving things in a 
hurry has found its ideal expression in the airplane. 
What China requires urgently, immediately, is more 
American cargo planes to move supplies in from In- 
dia. Many Americans believfe that the requirement 
is already being met, because they know that our 
factories are now turning out large number of 
modem aircraft in. all categories. They know we 
sympathize with our Ally China and they assume 
that all this adds up to plenty of planes both cargo 
and combat. 

What they forget is the fact that China is "the 
last stop 'for the milk train” and that most of the 
milk cans are taken off before the train gets to 
Chungking. There are many stories of how com- 
manders nearer to the source of supply have deftly 
lifted this and that portion of all manner of highly 
necessary things — including airplanes— originally 
intended for China,, It is greatly to be hoped that 
from now on, China will receive her just due. When 
we irelp' China in fijplting^ Japan, we help ourselves 

Repatriation Delay 

A Washington correspondent/ John O’Donnell of 
the New York Daily News, flatly states in cold type 
that the delay in starting the second Far East re- 
partriation is “the involved bargaining between the 
Japanese and our State Department concerning the 
exchange of interned civilians.” He further declares 
that ¥okyo wants certain Japanese to be returned, 
but that “there are certain Japanese citizens this 
nation is anxious to keep a finger on because of 
tie-ups with enemy plotting and aspionage in the 
days immediately before Pearl Harbor.” 

We cannot presume to judge the authenticity of 
the above, although it may be said that Mr. O’Don- 
nell has come out and said what has been a topic of 
rumor for many weeks past. But a statement of 
the facts, from some official source, would clear 
the air. 

Pending such statement we may put forward two 
points. First, Japan released J. B. Powell and a 
number of other Americans who had been under ar- 
rest on suspicion of espionage. However unjustified 
such suspicion, Tokyo held it yet let these people go. 
It is certainly reasonable that the Japanese should 
expect reciprocity, after what they must regard as a 
generous gesture from their side. Second, we are 
convinced by a torrent of correspondence and per- 
sonal word that Americans who have relatives and 
friends in the Fffr East — in fact, all Americans who 
have given the slightest thought to the plight of 
their helpless fellow-nationals held captive by Japan 
• — feel that the question of past Japanese espionage 
in America (or at least of the personalities con- 
cerned in such espionage) is utterly trivial by com- 
parison with the need for implementing another ex- 
change agreement. 

Let's swap any 10 Japanese in this country, if 
necessary, for any one American in Japanese hands! 

A Happier New Year to all Far Easterners. 



THE POST BOX 



Due to the fact that we are sending out 
many sample copies of owr first issue, on 
mailing lists supplied by various friends, you 
may receive duplicate copies with subscrip- 
tion postcards attached. Please understand 
that this is only because of accidental dupli- 
cation and is not a “dun" if you were on the 
news letter list ( and therefore entitled to the 
newspaper without charge for one year ) or 
already paid up. If you know of others who 
might like to'see our paper with a view to 
subscribing, kindly advise us of their names 
and free introductory copies will be sent to 
them . — Editor 



Letters from readers are in- 
vited. The following are letters, 
or extracts from letters, sent to 
the Starr, Park & Freeman news 
letter which has now been incor- 
porated into this newspaper — 
Editor. 

From A Missionary 
I was a missionary in Japan, 
practically 48 years — the last 23 as 
secretary of the American Bible 
Society, at Tokyo. 

Three of my sons are in the 
army — one as captain, two as 
lieutenants. Two other sons, i 
fortunately, were in the Orient 
business at the time Japan struck 
Uncle Sam, and were captured and 
interned — one at Manila, the other 
at Shanghai. Therefore you under- 
stand I am deeply interested in all 
that concerns the Orient. 

K. E. AURELL. 
Los Angeles, Calif. 

Tientsinite at Calcutta 
You might be interested that I 
just received a card from Cecil 
Way of Tientsin postmarked Cal- 
cutta, India, dated Nov. 24th. Here 
is what he writes: "At last I have 
a chance to write you — a thing I’ve 
wanted to do for a very long time.-' 
The campaign in Burma and the 
attacks I’ve had of malaria and 
dysentery following our trek over- 
land from Burma via Assam to 
India were all against my getting 
a chance to write. At last, after 15 
months, I’ve seen Harold Bridge 
who has been very ill indeed and 
is still looking ironed out. I’m in 
Category B (medically) and am 
hoping to get-to Washington, D. C. 
and of course to see you. A friend 
is going to Lahore and I am giving 
him Sam Fink’s address.” 

Mr. Way was manager of Manu- 
facturers Life of Canada in North 
China and Sam Fink was in the 
export trade in Tientsin until they 
had to get out. Harold Bridge rep- 
resented Pottinger & Company at 
the same place. Cecil and Harold 
are English while Sam is Ameri- 
can and the husband of Jean and 
father of Beverly. The last two 
now residing in Queens Village, 

New York. . 

Me, I’m selling stocks and bonds 
for the duration and it will be my 
misfortune to get so firmly rooted 
here that I may not be able to get 
away when the grand rush begins 
back to Old China. In any event 
come what may I must have one 
more "look see” at the . old stopp- 
ing ground. 

JOSEPH E. KOVAR. 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

Florida Bibliophile 

Your newsletter 84 arrived this 
morning and was, as always, ex- 
ceedingly interesting to me. You 
refer to old prints on the second 
page and what I have would prob- 
ably be of neither interest or use, 
but I’ll mention it anyway. 

I bought an old volume from a 
nearby library entitled ‘China, Its 
Scenery, Architecture, Social Hab- 
its, etc.,” published (undated — may- 
be 60 or 80 years ago) by "The 
London Printing and Publishing 
Co., Ltd.” It’s really a tome as it’s 
large and heavy and is in darn 
poor condition thanks to this won- 
derful climate, although I’m trying 
to dry it out a little in the sun as 
I write. It’s filled with a great 
many etchings (all legible) but 
they mostly deal with general cus- 
toms or South China (Peking). If 
you think it would prove of in- 
terest I wbuld be very glad to send 
it on. 

Mr. E. S. Cunningham, former 
Consul General, Shanghai, is still 
here not having gone after all to 
the Tennessee Mountains for the 
summer. There’s a little place here 
called the “Shanghai Inn” run, I 
believe, by a gentleman named 
Daugherty formerly of The Savoy 
(and Palace?) bars.. 

Good luck to the newsletter 
which I hope will continually con- 
tain brighter and better news. 

H. A. R. (HANK) CQNANT. 
Clearwater Beach, Florida. 

Shanghai Sherlock Holmes 
My name is George E. Darters, 
ex-Detective Inspector, Shanghai 
Municipal Police and you will re- 
member me as the chap who gave 
you a little assistance a few years 
ago in Shanghai when you had a 
little trouble. R. G. rewarded my 
efforts with two cans of Blue Boar 
tobacco (which I thought was dry 
alfalfa). 

I am on the cadge again — believe 
you seftd people news letters on 
general situation in the Far East 
and Shanghai in particular and I 



would appreciate i 
could include me 
list. 



:ry much if you 
n your mailing 



About myself. Managed to get 
out with the family (three little 
girls) on the Coolidge, left the city 
on October 8, 1941. Landed in 
Canada and after a wait of two 
months got a job Ss Warrant Of- 
ficer with the promise of promo- 
tion after twelve months service. 

Am now in a little place called 
Prince Rupert. It is in northern 
B. C. and has the heaviest rain- 
fall on the coast. Have been here 
six months and hope to receive an 
appointment at Victoria where the 
family is. 

GEORGE E. DARTERS. 
Victoria, B. C„ Canada. 

Children in Shanghai 
I wish I could tell you hoy 'much 
we appreciate your effort/ to give 
us news from the Far ^sst where 
two sons and my daughter, Gwen 
Cooper, are still in -Shanghai, as 
far as we ~knowT-. 

We are deeply graltful for all 
the trouble you take t6--gather 
news of the many friends \ put 
there and look forward eagerly tlx 
the coming of your weekly letter. 

MRS. F. L. HAWKS POTT. 
New York City. 

Information Desired 

A recent letter from Mrs. Billon 
of Laguna Beach advises me to 
write to you in regard to our 
daughter who is still in Shanghai, 
China. She thought you would be 
illing to put us on your mailing 
list for the weekly news letter 
that gives news of the Far East. 

Our daughter, Mrs. James Johns- 
ton-Hoerter and her daughter, Inge- 
borg Stang-Lund, were living in 
their own home at the end of 
Hungjao Road (170 Chen-ke-chia I 
believe was their address! when 
the Japanese took over. Her hus- 
band was already with the -British 
forces in India. Since that time, we 
have not been able to get any word 
to her in any way, though we have 
tried repeatedly through the Red 
Cross, her business company in 
New York City, F. L. Smidth Com- 
pany, -and — is athfi^PflSSiilg. 

way that was suggested. 

Her husband is English, but Mar- 
garet has retained her American 
citizenship. Her husband was 
working in the B.A.T. before go- 
ing to India. Would you know of 
any one who came on the Grips- 
holm who may have known them? 
We are especially anxious because 
had no letter from her on the 
Gripsholm, though she has always 
before been so careful about get- 
ting letters to us and is very re- 
•ceful. 

JOHN ,R. TINDLE. 

512 Project St., San Pedro, Calif. 

North China Editor Safe 
Thank you for your letter and 
also for forwarding my letter to 
Mr. Meisling and giving me his 
New York address. I. have since 
had a telegram from him. in which 
he tells me that Mr. Davis was 
well and cheerful in Stanley In- 
terment Camp when he last saw 
him in June. This tallies with the 
informatioi Mr. Starr kindly sent 
after a conversation with his 
former Hongkong manager, Mr. 
McGhee. 

At last we know definitely where 
my husband is and have had di- 
rect news of him, which is a great 
relief to me and my daughter. Mr. 
Davis, by the way, was not in 
Shanghai when the balloon went 
up. He had gone down to Hongkong 
late November to apply for ex- 
change permits for the purchase of 
newsprint for the foreign press in 
Shanghai. N. F. Allman travelled 
down with him on the same busi- 
for the Chinese press. Both 
were caught there when the Col- 
ony was invaded. I presume that 
Mr. Allman returned on the Grips- 
holm. 

It was very kind of you to in- 
quire of Mr. Opper about my hus- 
band and if you should hear any 
further news from any other 
source, I shall be most grateful to 
get it. I was in Victoria last win- 
ter and spring, and consequently 
read your interesting newsletters 
and believe me they were appreci- 
ated. Down here I am arranging 
with Ruth Benedict, an old friend, 
to let me see her copies, and I 
want to take this opportunity to 
thank you for them and for the 
comfort which they frequently 
brought when reports in the news- 
papers were particularly lurid and 
disturbing. 

MAUD E. DAVIS. 
San. Diego, California. 



Friday, January 1, 1943 



THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Page Five 



Familiar Faces 
Appear In 
Post Personnel 

Most of those who n6w join in 
the task of issuing a New York 
Edition of The Shanghai Evening 
Post & Mercury are merely carry- 
ing on accustomed tasks 
setting. Here are a fe wfacts, seri- 
ous and frivolous, about some of 
them: 

CORNELIUS V. STARR. He 
learned journalism the hard way, 
from the top. When he began to 
finance the onetime Shanghai Eve- 
ning News, later the Post, his first 
observation was that it wasn’t 
much of a paper. Trying to do 
something about it moved him 
rapidly into a role which had many 
educational phases and turned him 
into what might be termed 
itor of editors”. Those who know 
him in tbit* capacity regard him 
as uniquely^g¥fted. 

RANDALL GiOULD. After Oc- 
casional contribution . of editorials 
while with United, Press, joined the 
.Post in Shanghai as chief editorial 
writer in ..IQjjl under Ted Thackrey 
(now editor New York Post), later 
becoming editor and landing on 
the Wang Ching-wei blacklist with 
Mr. Starr, Carroll Alcott, J. B. 
Powell, Norwood Allman and 
others. In early 1941 left for New 
York, turning over to — 

Our “Jail Editor’’ 

FREDERICK B. OPPER. His 
term as Shanghai editor was rela- 
tively short but lively, and followed 
by a 109-day residence as prisoner 
of the Japanese in the Bridge 
House. (See his story starting in 
current issue.) Mr. Opper is to be- 
come editor of the projected 
Chungking Edition. The Shanghai 
Evening Post & Mercury, and a 
the moment is full of "shots” pre- 
paratory to returning to China. 

EARL H. LEAF. Few if any 
Shanghai reporters have ever 
turned' 'out more varied, colorful 
yet sound copy than did Mr. Leaf 
during his China days. He covered 
the town and wrote one of the 
Post’s most popular columns. Later 
he lived in Manchuria and Tientsin, 
and traveled in the interior. Once 
ire sac on f ranklin D. Roosevelt's 
bat — not part of his China experi- 
ence but mentioned here in an ef- 
-fort to attract a few Wall Street 
readers. 

KENYON D. ETTINGER. Close- 
ly associated with Starr enter- 
prises for several years although 
he is one of the few on our paper 
who has never been in the Far 
East though he has been in the 
Middle East. He will be delighted 
to deal with your subscriptions and 
advertising requirements. 

Wrote News Letter 

DOREEN LENNOX. Familiar to 
readers of the news letter which 
has nojv been incorporated into 
this newspaper, Mrs. Lennox took 
hold of a hard job and handled it 
in such fashion that she can’t be 
spared from the reborn Post. She 
is the wife of a former Jardine 
Shanghai executive and has a wide 
acquaintance among ex-Shanghai- 
landers. 

HELEN GRAHAM PARK. Her 
•Far East experience was in the 
Philippines. She found the climate 
trying but like all of us, netted a 
host of friends as clear profit. Al- 
though we expect to have her 
pounding a typewriter, so far her 
chief service to the new Post has 
been to locate its editorial staff in 
quarters far ahead of anything the 
old paper had, 

GRACE COOK. "Out Where We 
Live” is a column bodily trans- 
planted from the Sunday Mercury, 
weekly newspaper issued from the 
Shanghai Evening Post offices. 
Now in an American setting, it will 
keep its Far East flavor along 
with the home quality and human 
sympathy which endeared it to 
Shanghai readers. 

Everybody Knows “Ruth”! 

RUTH BENEDICT. Whether she 
ever worked for the old Post is 
uncertain, because Miss Benedict 
was the friend not only of the 
Shanghai news fraternity but of 
the whole community. Her last en- 
gagement was with the rival North- 
China Daily News but we feel her 
'.rholly a part of our family, now 
writing from Los Angeles. 

ERNA CARSON. Located in 
Washington, Mrs. Carson is Miss 
Benedict's "opposite number” both 
geographically and in the matter of 
multitudinous Far East contacts. 
She contributed large numbers of 
personalities to the news letter and 
starts out promisingly with the 
newspaper. 



Far East Notes from the Far West 



By Ruth Benedict 



All of the best for 1943!!! 

New Year's Day and a chance 
to start all over again with a 
beautifully clean slate. U. S. fold- 
ing money to a Japanese sen that 
the readers of this letter will be 
resolving to keep in closer touch 
with comrades of the good old days 
of the Far East. One grand way 
to make this best of resolutions 
help a wider circle is to send along 
items of personal interest to the 
New York edition, Shanghai Eve- 
ning Post. 

No friends like the old friends — 
particularly if they have shared 
our experiences in the Orient. Let’s 
hear how you are adjusting to life 
at home, what the qhildren are do- 
ing, what you are doing to bring 
a speedy victory so that we can 
begin to take boats and go places 
again. 

We can't dance the new year in 
together as of yore, meet at the 
endless procession of egg nog par- 
ties — remember Consul-General 
Cunningham’s flowing bowl? — ox- 
bet on the ponies at the Race 
'Course. But we can all share happy 
memories and while in that mood 
why not obey that impulse and 
send a greeting to former pals 
through the agency of these col- 



A very different sort of New 
Year from that of 1942 will be John 
C. Terry’s. Foi'mei'ly of Shanghai 
and now living in Hollywood with 
his sister, Mrs. Gardner Crane, he 
was stationed on the Burma-Road 
as mechanical engineer with the 
caterpillar tractors until the Jap- 
anese took it. He then tx-ansferred 
to the Royal Engineers in North 
Burma. When they had to retreat 
Terry, ill with dysentei-y and a sep- 
tic leg, was sent out to India just 
two days before the genei'al trek. 
He spent two or three months in 
Calcutta and Bombay until his unit 
was disbanded, when, as his leg 
was still troubling him, he asked 
to be sent home and arrived in 
California some three months ago. 

So convinced is Terry that East 
Indians are wretched motor car 
drivers that when he was being 
tmcvn Ttowir me”Btirma Road by 
ambulance, expecting every mo- 
ment to be pitched over the edge, 
he managed to get himself trans- 
ferred from the stretcher to the 
front, on the plea that bis leg would- 
be easier there. Once up he made 
the driver change places Adth him 
and the patient drove the ambu- 
lance the rest of the way. When 
in Rangoon during the bombings 
of December 23, 25 and 28 fifteen 
bombs exploded round the house 
where he was staying, but it Wasn’t 
hit at # all. Mr. Terry, entirely re- 
covered, is now working for the 
North American Aviation Company. 

Another old China hand in North 
America is Mr. Ed Himrod, who 
arrived on the Gripsholm. Mrs. 
Jean Beeks, widow of the late Ed 
Beeks of Shanghai, and her daugh- 
ter Adrienne, are also working 

War Moves 

Locating people from the Orient, 
as compiloi's of directories lament, 
is difficult. Now you have ’em and 
then you don’t. Blame the war in 
part. Calling up Alfred (Red) Bat- 
son, formerly of the "North-China 
Daily News” to ask about the 
Chinese photographs he wanted a 
month or so ago for his book you 
hear: "He's in the Army now,” The 
Navy has a new Lt. A1 Driscoll, 
A.N. (P)U.S.N.R., training at Quon- 
set Point, R. L. His wife, the for- 
mer Miss Carolyn Gill, will keep 
the home fires burning in their 
picturesque Nichols Canyon home 
overlooking Hollywood, and carry 



on with her plane-spotting and oth- 
er war work. 

On the home defense line is L. D. 
Gholson, of Asia Life Insurance Co., 
Shanghai. Mr. and Mrs. Gholson 
are now living in Beverly Hills and 
Dan is on the swing shift of Doug- 
las Aircraft, adjusting insurance for 
their employees. 

War work has enlisted many 
from the Far East. Sutton Chi' 
tian, one time of the “China Press 
Shanghai, has left Santa Cruz 
where he was editing the local pap- 
er, and is now with the Red Ci'oss. 
“Wearing red flannels” was the only 
clue given as to his whereabouts. 
Mrs. Christian, Nevada Semenza as 
was, has closed their charming 
home on the hills behind the sea 
and is now in Red Cross work in 
San Francisco where James Ham- 
mond, another old "China Press” 
man, is field director of the Red 
Cx - oss. Rose Leibi'and, another for- 
mer newspaper worker in Shanghai 
went from Heppnei', Oregon, to join 
the Waacs. 



Aline Sholes, so well known in 
Shanghai as secretary of the In- 
ternational Art Theatre, is helping 
win the war in a thoroughly prac- 
tical manner. The Pasadena firm 
for which she is working manu- 
factures aluminum toilet seats for 
Army and Navy planes, and if that 
isn’t indispensable war effort, she 
asks, what could be? 

Frank O. Maxwell, formerly in 
the Bureau of Education and Audit 
n the Philippines, lieutenant in the 
U. S. Army stationed in Tientsin, 
and till recently one of the vice- 
presidenes of Wyeth, Hass & Co., 
Los Angeles, is now a civilian em- 
ployee of the war department, ne- 
gotiating the re-negotiation of war 
contracts. At the moment Mr. Mex- 
well is in Cincinnati, but when he 
finishes his course of ti'aining he 
will return to California. 

Additional word came direct from 
Rose Leibrand of Company 2, First 
Regiment, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 
that she expected to receive her 
commission as Lieutenant on De- 
cember 24: She has been with the 
Waacs since July, living with a 



every sort of background, and has 
never seen a quarrel. 

Asia Hoxise Active 
Asia House, of Southern Califor- 
nia "meets to eat” on the first 
Tuesdays of every month but Au- 
gust. It has made its headquarters 
for about two years at the Holly- 
wood Athletic Club but its tiffins 
may be moved somewhere down- 
town to meet wartime contingen- 
cies. Harry O. Hashagen, former 
Assistant General Manager of So- 
cony in North China, is Honorary 
President for Life, as one of those 
primarily responsible for the or- 
ganization of this club. Henry Mis- 
selwit, former cori'espondent of the 
"New Yox-k Times” in China and 
Japan, was its first president and 
held the position for two years. 
George H. Barnes, who was with 
the Intel-national Banking Corpora- 
tion in Tientsin and the National 
City Bank in Kobe and Osaka, has 
just closed a very successful two 
years as president. He was so pop- 
ular in fact that the »club has 
sisted on retaining him as secretary 
for the coming year. 

President for 1943 is H. Royce 
Greatwood, former sales manager 
for Union Oil in the Orient. He 
has already been called to Wash- 
ington for confei'ences with the 
Government and he may be requi- 
sitioned for an economic mission 
to China and India. 

The former board of governors 
numbered twelve but during the 
six of them were called away 
by war or business so for the dura- 
tion the board will carry on with 
seven members, transportation dif- 
ficulties making it impossible to get 
big committee together. Harvey 
Campbell of the former board, who 
formerly with the National 
City Bank in Rangoon, is now as- 
sistant treasurer of the Lockheed 
Aiicraft Corporation. 



Gol. Herbert Writes 

Col. A. 23. Herbert, D.S.O., who is 
remembered by old Hongkong res- 
idents, writes from Edinburgh, 
Scotland, as follows: 

“Isn’t the news grand, and the 
Americans are doing a wonderful 
job everywhere. I think they are a 
grand people. Yes, I think the tide 
is now at the full and victory 
beckons on the far horizon. So 
re’s to tomorrow, and some day. 



Four Philippine 
Clubs In U. S. 

An attractive 1942 yearbook is- 
sued by the Philippine Society of 
Southern California lists four clubs 
of former residents of the Philip- 
pines in this country. 

Charles* W. Olson is president of 
the Philippine Society of Southern 
California at Los Angeles, with. 
Lewis A. Derkum as secretary- 
treasurer. Maj. Gen. Frank R. 
McCoy is president of the Philip- 
pine Club in New York City, Ar- 
thur S. Thompson being secretary 
and John S. Leech treasurer. Oscar 
F. Campbell is president of the 
Philippine Society of California at 
San Francisco, William H. Taylor 
being secretary-treasurer. William 
F. Pack heads the Miami Philip- 
pine Club at Miami with Guy E. 
Dillard as secretary. 

During recent months a number 
of informal Philippine groups have 
started in Washington, D. C., and 
other points in order to deal with 
wartime problems. In San Fran- 
cisco, the Philippine - American 
Chamber of Commerce at 2504 
Russ Bldg, seeks “economic re- 
habilitation and reimbursement for 
losses sustained as result of the 
war.” 



West Coast 
For Easterners — 

For Life Insurance 

See 

GEORGE F. GOULD 

726 CALMAR AVENUE 
Oakland. California 
Phone Glencourt 1796 

Representing 

Western Life Insurance Co. 



F.6. 



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/enu« 

New York City 



101 Fifth Avenue 3 -4^ 
York Citv 



Purchasing Agents 

for 

Corporations . . . Jobbers 
and Manufacturers 



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ver 

★ ★ ★ since the Chou Dynasty (1122-249 B. C.) two thousand 
years before Genghis Khan’s hordes swept eastward into China, the 
Chinese characters, Ren Shao Pao Shen, have been used to signify Man, 
Long Life, Protection, Danger. They mean life insurance, and were 
selected by the Chinese people from their ancient, ten-thousand-character 
language as best expressing its full significance. 

The Asia Life Insurance Company was the pioneer American legal reserve 
life insurance company in China and grew to be a great and beneficial 
institution there. 

The Asia Life’s work in its chosen field has now been temporarily inter- 
rupted by the war. 

When peace permits, the Company will again take up its work in the Far 
East and discharge in full its trusteeship to many thousands of insureds 
whom it cannot now reach because they have been cut off by enemy occu- 
pation. Meanwhile, the Company’s directors have taken all precautions 
to conserve the savings of its policyholders and meet wartime regulations 
of the United Nations. 

The Asia Life Insurance Company is writing no new business but through 
the courtesy of Starr, Park and Freeman, Inc., 101 Fifth Avenue, New 
York City, arrangements have been made to assist and serve all policy- 
holders outside enemy territory. 



- c^SIA 

Life Insurance Company 



MANSFIELD FREEMAN, President 



Page Six 



THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Friday, January 1, 1943 



Mark Moody’s 
Fil m Epic 
Is Thriller 

Mark Moody's Shanghai friends 
will see his newsreel-feature atroc- 
ity motion picture “Ravaged Earth” 
with the days of '37 coming back 
clear and vivid. The. film, now be- 
ing shown throughout the country, 
may sound as though it deals with 
China as a whole since the Japa- 
nese attack began five and a half 
years ago but it is a Shanghai pro- 
duction through the greater part of 
its length. 

"Ravaged Earth” according to 
its short introductory note seeks to 
prove that Japanese are barbar- 
ians. It fully succeeds. The picture 
is full of bombings, bayonet 
charges, tortures and assorted Nip- 
ponese fiendishness occurring for 
the most part in the Shanghai- 
Nanking area in the summer and 
fall of 1937. Familiar landmarks, 
personalities and incidents — the 
Bund, the Cathay-Palace bombing, 
the Jap victory parade down Nan- 
king Road and the subsequent 
bombing of it, U. S. Fourth Ma- 
rines, Father Jacquinot — appear 
time and again until one almost 
imagines himself back along the 
Whangpoo. 

The plot, if one can be discerned, 
opens with a few scattered shots 
of a happy China growing prosper- 
ous and modern in the days before 
the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. 
July 7 brought an end to that era 
and the remainder of the picture 
deals almost exclusively with the 
savage Japanese onslaught and the 
atrocities committed by Japanese 
soldiers. Emphasis is given to the 
heroic defense of the Chinese peo- 
ple and government in the face of 
heavy odds with occasional views 
of the Generalissimo, Madame 
Chiang Kai-shek and other leaders. 

Photography Excellent 

The commentator opens his nar- 
rative with an apology for the 
amateurishness of many of the 
scenes, an apology which is not 
needed and which, indeed, is out of 
place. True, the reels were not 
made in Hollywood and show it. 
But the very fact that they are 



the spot and not in a papier mache 
setting lends full authenticity. 

Two serious criticisms are due, | 
however. The picture is primarily 
an anti-Japanese propaganda film 
and the propaganda is to the point 
that Japanese are fiends in human 
form who kill, rape, torture and 
burn with a callousness never be- 
fore or elsewhere matched. But 
some of those who have seen the 
film complain that such propa- 
ganda is carried to extremes with 
a disproportionate amount of 
footage given to Japanese brutali- 
ties and too little to Chinese cour- 
age, reconstruction and dignity in 
the face of such outrages. Some- 
times it almost seems as though 
the picture was nothing but one 
dead body after another, the re- 
sult being, for many, a sameness 
that grows boring. 

The second criticism is the obvi- 
ous falsity of many of the state- 
ments made by the commentator — 
misstatements that will readily be 
caught by the Shanghailanders and 
others from the Far East,. In addi- 
tion there are in the running com- 
mentary many places where, while 
the actual remarks themselves may 
be true enough, the known facts 
do not jibe with the impression an 
uninformed movie-goer would re- 
ceive. The impression is given, for 
example, that the bomb that fell 
at Nanking Road and the Bund 
killing an uncounted number of 
persons was dropped deliberately 
at that spot by a Japanese aviator. 
The conynentator doesn’t say so in 
so many words but many an Amer- 
ican who has viewed the film be- 
lieves that’s the case, we're willing 
to bet. 

It might be added here that 
“Ravaged Earth” has had some 
tough rows to hoe in that children 
under 16 aren’t allowed into thea- 
ters showing it. Since the kid-trade 
is important to the theater owners 
there has been an inclination to 
by-pass “Ravaged Earth’’ by some. 
We understand, though, that the 
picture is showing pretty general- 
ly throughout the country and ap- 
parently, therefore, enough adults 
want to see “Japanese atrocities 
performed before your eyes” as 
one New York theater advertised 
it to give it a large - and receptive 
audience. If you're interested in 
some excellent on-the-spot photog- 
raphy of China at war and would 
like another view of Shanghai, 
2937 brand, you'll join the queue. 

— >F. B. O. 



Campaign in Burma 




New Year Brings Hopes 
To Exiles From Orient 



By DOREEN LENNOX 



Kwang-GuillUmette 

General Sir Archibald Wavell, commander of the Birtish forces in 
India, confers with General Lo Clio-ying, commander of the Chinese 
Expeditionary Forces in India. 



Teddy White, Time, Pioneers 
New Expense Account Era 



Somewhere around three or four 
years ago an earnest, bespectacled 
and highly determined young man 
from Harvard dropped into the 
Shanghai Evening Post's editorial 
offices at 19 Avenue Edouard VII 
and asked for a reportorial job — or, 
failing that, some advice. 

The latter seemed rather easier 
to dish out, as there was a full 
staff at the moment (a whole seven 
people, more or less). So Teddy 
White was confirmed in his notion 
that it might be a good idea to run 
up to Peiping and study Mandarin 
pardon us, official Chinese— for 
half-year. Later this same Teddy 
White bobbed up in Chungking, 
■king at this and that. Pretty 
soon he got on as a correspondent 
for Time magazine. When visited 
from time to time he seemed to be 
gaining weight both physically and 
with his bosses. 

Now he has really arrived. In :i 



right out baldly and explains he 
was buying tropical shorts, shirts 
and a monsoon raincoat. He adds 
that the day he landed he almost 
passed out in his winter army uni- 
form. O tempora, o mores! Pub- 
lishers of the old regime would 
have let him pass out without a 
qualm, if his salvation depended on 
their O.K.ing 91 30-cent rupees on 
an expense account. 

Even worse is the next item. 
“Five rupees — Movie — pretty bad.” 
Mr. Prentice makes no comment 
and evidently lets Teddy get away 
with charging the office for the 
cost of his attending a movie 
which isn't even a good movie. 

There is no good going on, and 
anyway, maybe Time copyrights 
the expense accounts of its' corre- 
spondents. Suffice it to add that 
Teddy spent 985 rupees at the 
Cecil, which he enthusiastically 
■I CLms . “real l y a . raeftt> - hote¥ - ’ in 



As one enters the New Year, 
one’s mind somehow turns to that 
fateful afternoon a little over a 
year ago when our particular 
world came tumbling about our 
ears. 

It was a lovely, rather fresh win- 
ter afternoon. A party of us were 
in the country and before going 
back to town someone suggested a 
brisk walk. It seemed a grand idea. 
We were passing the farm cottage 
when out rushed the superintend- 
ent with the completely incredible 
news that Pearl Harbor was be- 
ing attacked by the Japanese. 
Somebody said "nonsense," and all 
of us thought it, but nevertheless 
we rushed to that little room where 
a small sized radio was rather 
asthmatically producing noises 
dicating that a football match was 
taking place somewhere. It seemed 
that our skepticism was well 
founded, but no; almost immedi- 
ately on the heels of someone 
scoring a point, came the words: 
“This morning the Japanese at- 
tacked Pearl Harbor.” 

No one spoke. There was nothing 
to say. Quietly we retraced our 
steps, there was no meaning left 
in a brisk walk in the country. 
The light had somehow gone out 
of the day. One's thoughts became 
entirely centered on the people out 
there in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong- 
kong, Manila, — everywhere in the 
Far East. One did not think of 
the material losses. 

came those inexplicable re- 
verses. Hongkong hurt terribly, 
Singapore even more so, followed 
the Philippines and Java. 
Where would it stop? But it did 
stop, and we were able to turn our 
minds once aagin towards the fu- 
ture. 

For a year now husbands, rela- 
tives and friends have suffered 
privations and the loss of freedom 
in the hands of a barbaric enemy 
and our thoughts have been con- 
stantly with them. 

On this continent Far Eastern- 



hurt more than others. The for- 
tunate ones had only lost material 
possessions and came to realize 
that in life possessions mean lit- 
tle. There has been a tremendous 
effort to help each other and a 
certain newsletter was an out- 
standing example. 

Little colonies of evacuees who 
had settled in different parts of 
Canada and the West Coast of the 
U. S A. had to readjust them- 
selves to a life of anxious waiting. 
An entirely new kind of life had 
to be faced. They have risen to it 
well and their letters make light 
of the endless difficulties. They 
have kept a stiff upper lip. 

With the New Year comes new 
hope. The tide has turned. Sooner 
or later we will be back- there once 
again. But it will not be tomorrow 
or the next day. We kiiOw our Jap; 
he will be hard to move. What it 
will be like wj> cannot even guess, 
but the spirit' shown in the ad- 
versities of the past year will sec 
us through to happier -times. 



News of Swatow 
Arrives Here 

The first news about foreign 
residents in Swatow has reached 
New York. For the first two weeks 
after the outbreak of war, all 
Americans and Britons were placed 
under restraint but later, they were 
allowed a large amount of freedom. 

■donditions were tightened up 
considerably after Edwards of the 
Hongkong Bank made his escape. 
Retaliation took the form of re- 
moval of all the comforts of life 
down to easy chairs. 

There seems to have been no 
imprisonment or unusual brutality, 
except the slapping of the face of 
one lady who tried to stop gan- , 
darmes from beatiig up her boy. A 
Tsingtao, Jardine's Hong 
House was used at the outset as 
an interment camp for Britons. 



have been trying gamely to put I Americans were interned in Reiss 
the pieces together. Some were Bradley’s No. 1 House. 



current issue of Time, Teddy's pub- 
lisher P. I. Prentice uses the White 
expense account from Ceylon to 
Chungking as text for a sermon to 
his readers. There is many a news- 
paper saga about expense aqcounts, 
and their . effect on publishers, but 
somehow Teddy managed to do 
this — like much else— differently. 
“It gave me such a sharp new in- 
sight into what a correspondent’s 
life in far-away places is really like 
these days,” writes Mr. Prentice 
with no evidence of hostility, nay 
with an actual aura of benovelence, 
“that I. thought you might also be 
interested in some of the entries. 
(A rupee is about 30 cents.)” 
Clothes Charged Up 
We are interested, no kidding. 
Ted’s first item was 91 rupees for 
clothes. Once on a time a Hearst 
correspondent bought some clothes 
in Tientsin and was so enraged at 
the fit when he subsequently tried 
them on that he threw them over- 
board somewhere south of the Hai 
Ho bar, vowing at the same time 
that they would go on the expense 
account. They did, and the auditor 
paid, but what he thought he was 
paying was entertainment, taxi 
hire, tips and meals. Teddy comes 



Serving 
New York’s 

Great Chinese 

Community 

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China 
Loan Co. 

79 Bayard Street 

New York 

Operating under- 
Section 9 

of the New York State 
Banking Law 



spite of the fact that "they’ve run 
out of Western whiskies, so now 
they are serving such tiger wash 
as ‘Dew of the Himalayas.’ ” One 
can only assume that Time paid, 
and paid — especially as it noted 
that "Our Bill 'Fisher (formerly of 
Shanghai and Manila) likes stout, 
but he’s a Yale man.” Harvard, one 
gathers, goes for Himalaya Dew 
and Time pays the chit. Oh yes — 
Teddy also has down 25 rupees for 
bearers, explaining "a bearer is a 
personal servant. You’ve got to 
have one.” 

It was in our mind to offer 
Teddy a job on the forthcoming 
Chungking Edition, The Shanghai 
Evening Post & Mercury. But per- 
haps it were best that he stay with 
Prentice and Harry Luce- 
safe, sound, attended by his devot- 
ed bearer, and full of the tiger- 
ing Dew of the Himalayas. — 



Tung Sai Restaurant 

32 Mulberry Street 
New York 



"JF/iere East Meets West ” 

Cocktail Bar 

The Best Food 
East and West of Canton 



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The Underwriters Bank, formerly of 17 the Bund, Shanghai 
and 12 Queen’s Road Central, Hongkong is obliged to the New 
York Edition of the Shanghai Evening Post for this opportunity 
to inform at least some of its depositors that all prudent mea- 
sures have been taken by the Bank to safeguard their funds 
and substantial liquid assets are now held in the United States. 

The Bank is chartered only for operations abroad. Its directors 
have now authorized the opening of an office in Havana to 
resume the Bank’s normal business as rapidly as possible. 

The Bank’s name has been changed from The Underwriters 
Bank for the Far East, Inc., to The Underwriters Bank, Inc. 



Cornelius V. Starr 
President 






Friday, January .1, 1943 



THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Page Seven 



WASHINGTON WALLA-WALLA 



Snow on the Virginia hills. 
Carols sung in Georgetown Alley 
with Mrs. Roosevelt joining in 
heartily; carols on the radio, day 
and night; carols sung by the en- 
chanting voices of Howard Uni- 
versity Negro Choir; carols sung 
by 20,000 Army workers in the 
square of the new Pentagon Build- 
ing. All the old fashioned joys of 
Christmas time— popcorn parties 
and a real wood_ fire; stockings 
hung by adults as well as children; 
friendly calls on scattered China 
friends. 

Ice floating down the Potomac 
River and a few blocks away roses 
still blooming on the State De- 
partment lawn. 

Butter — when you can but it — 
66 cents a pound and, you buy it 
by the quarter pound. 

Restaurants" crowded and over- 
One cafeteria with a sign 
indow, “Dere’s steak and 
'ggs today, Suh, but all 
[i chops am gone.” 

password for Wasji- 
_for street . cars, 
buses, wait in stores, wait 
elevators., -You could get you 
Master’s degree While waiting in 
Washington. 

Stockings can be mended lut if 

1u take a pair to the store today 
you will probably get them back 
by February 25th. 

A bus driver said, "Come on, get 
on. It’s a free ride. I don’t have 
any change. I~ don’t have any 
transfers. I was supposed to be 
relieved but the guy didn’t come, 
so I have one more trip. Come on. 
Free ride!” 



By ERNA CARSON 



Stai 
— ^6u t 



And — have you ever said to your- 
self. "What in the world became 
of — ?” Well, he or she is right 
here in Washington. 

Mr. and Mrs. Morris J. Harris 
are recent arrivals. Remember Mr. 
Harris when he was with Associ- 
ated Press in Shanghai He is still 
Associated Press — in 'Washington. 

Mrs. A. Kilmartin, from Peking, 
arrived here this week from Cali- 
fornia to be with her husband, 
Lieut. A. Kilmartin. stationed here 
with the U. S. Navy. 

Bertram and Jeannette Butland, 
formerly Texaco of Harbin, Muk- 
den, Dairen, Tientsin and Hong- 
kong, now live with their young 
son, George, and a big gray cat, 
in Bethesda, Maryland. Bert finds 
that building the home fires and 
shovelling snow off the sidewalks 
is taking the place of his favorite 
finger game of China days — Ih 
Tien, one point; erh hsi, two joy- 
ful things; san hsin, three stars! 

Bill Painter,, looking tan and 
strong, was interview at a holiday 
cocktail party on Massachusetts 
Avenue. He is a Lieut. Comdr. in 
the Navy and has seen some force- 
ful action at Guadacanal and 
other 'points in the Pacific. He 
was asked, “Is it a military secret 
where you are going next?” Bill 
grinned, ‘Let us say it is an un- 
certainty"’ 

Helen Raven Bradford, wife of 
P. W. Bradford of the American 
Express Company, Calcutta, flew 
with her eight-year-old daughter 
from Karachi, India, to Florida, 
U. S. A. She stayed two weeks in 
Cairo and had an exciting trip 



over much of the territory re- 
covered by the Allies, The Brad- 
fords are stationed in Washington. 

Hem-lai Sun, formerly California 
Texas Oil Company, Shanghai and 
Hongkong, is now here with the 
Office of Petroleum Administrator. 

Frank Hillhouse, once upon a 
time with the National Aniline and 
Chemical Company of Dairen, 
Kwantung Leased Territory, is now 
with the U. S. Government and 
lives with his family on Lee 
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia. 

A short distance from the Hill- 
house family, also on Lee Boule- 
vard, lives another Rairen family, 
William and Jennie Turner, who 
have just arrived in this section. 
Mr. Turner was American Consul 
at Dairen and is now loaned by the 
State Department to the U. S. 
Navy. 

A third neighbor from Dairen, 
also living on Lee Boulevard is the 
Dear family— George and Mildred. 
George was with Standard Vacuum 
and is now with the British Petrol- 
eum Mission. 

W. L. Ogden, Standard Vacuum, 
from the Dutch East Indies, 
brought his family to Washington, 
took a position here with the Of- 
fice of Petroleum Administrator 
and likes very much the profes- 
sional baseball games of this 
country. 

Betty and Billy Coltman, Tient- 
sin, have motored from Washing- 
ton to California. Billy worked for 
Standard Vacuum one day and the 
next, he received his commission as 
Commander in the U. S. Navy and 
his uniform and his orders for 
some place in the Pacific. So he 
and Betty packed their tooth- 
brushes and their gas coupons and 
started out for San Francisco. 
Their children, Kyle and Shirley, 



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are in school in this viciiity and 
Betty is expected to return here 
after her husband sails. 

Dick McDonnell, for many years 
a China resident (U. S. Army in 
Tientsin and later building bridges 
for the Chinese government) is 
now a major in the U. S Army and 
located here with his family. 

Clarence— much better known as 
•’Chief” — Meyer of Standard Vacu- 
um, Japan, is now Standard Vacu- 
um, Washington. His brother, 
Brayton, with the same company 
in Shanghai is still waiting for the 
next repatriation boat. 

Garnet Cousins, British-American 
Tobacco Company of Shanghai and 
later of Southern U. S. A., is an 
occasional business visitor. 

Major Arthur Bassett, retired di- 
rector of the British American 
Tobacco Company is now stationed 
in this city. He went to San Fran- 
cisco to be with his wife during 
the holidays. 

Mr. E. B. Farley of Sevalia. 
Missouri, is visiting his son and 
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. 
Emmert of Kenwood, Maryland. 
Mr. Farley will be remembered by 
numerous Far Eastern friends 
whom he met during his visits to 
the Emmerts in Java in 1930 and 
in Hongkong in 1937. 

Lester ("Jack”) Nuland, Execu- 
tive Secretary of Foreign Petrol- 
eum Policies Committee, has just 
returned from a trip to South 
America. Basking in the hot sun 
of Cuba one day, he waded through 
a little Washington snow the next. 
He has joined Mrs. Nuland and 
their son. Jay, for a brief holiday 
visit in New York. 

Late arrivals in ' the city are 
Robert and Marion Monica!. They 
were with the California Texas Oil 
Company, of Tientsin and Shang- 
hai. Bob is now a First Lieut, in 
the U. S. Army and Marion is with 
the Censorship Bureau. Both of 
them are looking high and low for 
a Washington roof over their 
heads. 

Oh, yes, did you see this ad in 
the local payer— 

"Wanted, two furnished rooms and 
bath. Any, kind. Any where. Any 
price.” 

And did you all hear tell about 
the man who said, "Well, maybe 
you can't find a place to live, but 
Washington is still one of the few 
cities in the country where you can 
buy cigarettes two packages for a 
qu a rter . ’ - ’ 

Herman and Emma spent the 
Christmas holidays with Mrs. 
Young’s sister in Rocky Mount, 
North Carolina. In Tientsin, Her- 
man sold cars for General Motors 
and in his spare time played leads 
in amateur theatricals. Here he 
works for the government. 

Joe Morriell, Nanking and Hong- 
kong. has since his China days ac- 
quired a wife and a job in Uncle 
Sam’s Navy. He and Mrs. Morriell 
live in Washington. 

Dr. Roy Dickenson who spent 
some time in the Philippine Islands 
is now here with the Board of 
Economic Warfare. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Teaze 
bought themselves a pretty home 
in Maryland, and Mr. Teaze works 
for the Board of Economic War- 
fare. He was formerly with Stand- 
ard Vacuum, Japan. 

Another Sbanghailander tempo- 
rarily living in this crowded city 
is Max Bolin, formerly Cathay Oil 
(.Please turn to page 8) 



CHINESE 

CHOW 

By TAI-TAI 



This column is dedicated to all 
women who longingly look back to 
their China days, and in particular 
to the wonderful Chinese dishes of 
those days. Such dishes were skill- 
fully prepared by their cooks m 
kitchens which in many cases "tai- 
tai” was unfortunately not encour- 
aged to enter. . 

Any group of former feminine 
China hands has only to be to- 
gether for half an hour and the 
conversation invariably reverts to 
the good dinners they have attend- 
ed and given. What nostalgic 
tones creep into their voices! 

I propose to give you each week 
a few authentic Chinese recipes, 
simple enough to prepare in your 
own kitchenette. But in so doing I 
fully realize I leave the doors wide 
open to much difference of opinion. 
How could it be otherwise when in 
one evening I have heard ten dif- 
ferent methods of preparing so 
simple a dish as boiled rice? 

If you have some special favorite 
dish you wish to pass on to old 
China friends, send it on and we 
will be glad to print it: 

Sweet and Sour Spare ribs 
1 lb. fresh spareribs j 

1 tablespoon soy sauce 
1 cup vinegar j 

1 cup sugar 
1 green pepper 

3 slices canned pineapple 

4 teaspoons cornstarch 

1 teaspoon salt 

Cut spareribs into small pieces 
about one inch in length and one 
rib wide. Boil in water to cover 
four minutes and drain. Mix two 
teaspoons of cornstarch with the 
soy sauce and dip spareribs into 
this mixture. Fry to a golden 
brown in deep fat. 

Heat vinegar, sugar, salt and the 
green pepper which should be cut 
into one inch pieces. Bring to a 
boil. Add two teaspoons of corn- 
stqrch which has been made into a 
smooth, paste. Stir constantly until 
the mixture thickens. Add spareribs 
and pineapple, blending well. Serve 
piping hot. 

Fried Rice 

- 1 - e F £ L 

2 cups cooked rice 

% cup diced ham, roast pork or 
chicken 

1 chopped scallion or small onion 
1 teaspoon soy sauce 
Dash of pepper 

% teaspoon gourmet powder (mel 
jing) 

Scramble the egg in a hot greased 
skillet until very slightly brown. 
Add scallion, meat and rice. Saute 
two minutes and add soy sauce, 
pepper and gourmet powder. Gook 
a few minutes longer stirring 
gently. 



Broadcast Privilege 
Denied Soldiers 

The transmission of voice mes- . 
sages from Chungking to the 
United States by radio by Ameri- 
can military personnel is now 
strictly .prohibited, according to a 
recent ruling of the War Depart- 
ment. 



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cultural or export and import experience' 
in South Sea islands, willing to travel to 
South Seas for duration, wanted by U. S. 
Government agency. Box X2, Evening 
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YOUNG business man. well-educated, pre- 
sentable appearance, willing to travel any- 
where, Gripsholm evacuee from Hongkong, 
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KOREAN teacher, ardently loyal to United 
Nations, seeks full-time position as teacher 
or translator of Japanese language or will 
take private students in the Los Angeles 
area. Box X9, Evening Post, 101 Fifth 
Avenue, N. Y. C. 



PERSONAL 

RECENT information is sought of Mr. and 
Mrs. John Aiders of Shanghai. Anyone 
with news of them please communicate 
to Box X3, Evening Post, 101 Fifth Av- 
enue, New York City. 

MRS. B. W. BUMPHREY seeks word of 
three sisters, formerly residing in Kow- 
loon. Canton and Shanghai, respectively. 
Information will be forwarded if sent to 
Box X7. Evening Post. 101 Fifth Avenue, 
New York City. 



Page Eight 



THE SHANGHAI EVENING POST AND MERCURY 



Friday,. January 1/1943 



Maiden Given 
Aircraft Post 
In England 

G. E. Marden, former Shanghai 
shipping magnate and business ex- 
ecutive, has been appointed by Sir 
Stafford Cripps to take charge of 
one of the largest aircraft facto- 
ries in England. 

Mr. Marden was a director of the 
Shanghai Tug and Lighter Com- 
pany and other shipping concerns, 
head of Wheeler and Co., a large 
moving and storage company and 
many other business enterprises in 
Shanghai. 

The appointment of Mr. Marden 
by the British Minister of Aircraft 
Production was announced follow- 
ing complaints and, criticisms 
from the factory workers against 
management Inefficiency. 

The managing director of the fac- 
tory, Sir Richard Feary, has been 
in Washington on government busi- 
ness. The complaints against fac- 
tory operations started during his 
absence. 



Booklet Tells Life 
At Santo Tomas 

Persons with relatives or friends 
interned at Santo Tomas just out- 
side Manila will find a unique por- 
trait of internment life in a book- 
let just issued at $1 a copy by Re- 
lief For Americans in Philippines, 
101 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
This comprises replicas of the 
camp’s mimeographed newspapers 
“Internews" from January 24 to 
June 14, 1942, with introduction by 
Jenifer White who brought out the 
files when she was repatriated. 
‘‘Campus Health” issues are also 
incorporated. 

A plan of the camp appears, like- 
wise a photo of the main univer- 
sity building. Cartoons and text 
show that the internees preserved 
their sense of humor despite ad- 
versity. The news items give a vivr 
id and complete picture of hoW 
those An the camp worked and 
played. A review will appear in 
next week's Far East Books sec- 
tion'. 



Walla-Walla 



Out Where 
We Lire 

By GRACE COOK 



( Continued- from page 7) 
Company ami a director of the 
C.N.A.C. 

Robert McCann, Tientsin, was 
here on a business trip from the 
West Coast. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schaberg are 
local residents but Ben expects to 
return to China one of these days. 
He was formerly athletic director 
of the Foreign Y.M.C.A. in Shang- 
hai. Remember the old Coffee Shop 
there and remember those planked 
steaks? 

Here is a bit of news about the 
Harold J. Sheridan family, Stand- 
ard Vacuum, Shanghai. Master and 
Missy are living for the time being 
at Bennett Beach, St.' Petersburg, 
Florida. One son, Harold, is Vi 
the Marine Corps. Another son, 
Dick, has -joined the Navy Air 
Corps and is waiting for orders. 
A daughter, Kathleen, now Mrs. 
Alden Sonnier, is in Washington 
with her husband, Lieut. Sonnier, 
who comes from the state of 
Louisiana. 

N, F. Allman. Shanghai attorney, 
has joined the government service 
in Washington. 

(Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jarvis, for- 
mer American Consul at Hankow. 
China, and now American Consul 
at Vancouver, B. C., have sent out 
most -appropriate greeting cards: 
Just a red cross on the \card and 
the message, ‘‘May we all face the 
coming year with hope, faith and 
courage.” 



When Is a Tiji 
Not a Tip? 

Rival columnists and Washing- 
ton correspondents are wondering 
how close Mrs. Eleanor Rdosevelt 
came to locating in her United 
Feature Syndicate column. “My 
Day,” the city in' which Mme. 
Chiang Kai-shek is hospitalized. 

When the distinguished Chinese 
leader was revealed to be in this 
country, the Office of Censorship 
directed that no news be published 
naming the city in which she is 
undergoing treatment. The White 
House was named as the “appropri- 
ate authority" for further informa- 
tion. Mrs. Roosevelt’s column de- 
scribed, the incidents of two days 
in New York City, including a visit 
to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, 



O UT where we lived, there were 
families, and I was the mother 
of one of them. So if this col- 
umn had a point of view, that 
was it. With those two sentences 
— only they were in the pres- 
ent tense then— began the first 
round of this column, in the in- 
fancy of the Shanghai Evening 
Post's “Sunday Mercury,” and of 
the year 1939. (We were then but 
recently back from the 1937 evac- 
uation — remember? — and Peace in 
Our Time had been cheerily sealed 
the September before, over the dis- 
membered body of Czecho-Slovak- 
ia.) The family still is, and I am 
still the mother of it, these four 
terrible yCars later, and that's more 
than our share of good luck. But 
Out Where We Live is somewhere 
else — for our once closeknit little 
communities of Americans in the 
Far East, a lot of scattered some- 
where elses; and of what's happen- 
ing in places where we lived, to 
people whom we loved, it is better 
not to think — unless we csyi do 
.something about it. 

T HIS COLUMN was suspended, as 
far as my hand in it went, in 
the issue of June 22, 1941, with 
the lead sentence: “This time it 
seems to be final.” Since that Octo- 
ber evening in 1940 when the first 
evacuation warning came over the 
radio to startle us all, our family 
had been stalling; but all the ex- 
cuses, were used up, and when that 
paper went to press, we were on 
the China sea, evacuees at last. A 
“Guest Columnist" carried on for 
a while; but, sick at heart as he 
saw Shanghai going, he left, not 
long after, for Manila; he's now 
bn the Santo Tomas list. Old-timers 
of both Shanghai and Manila will 
remember Dr. Frank Haughwout. 
specialist in tropical diseases and 
typhoons, and no mean handler of 
the English language. 

In his first column on taking 
over, surveying the year's trek of 
evacuation, he wrote: “The fatuous: 
notion is widely entertained that/ 
once the war in Europe is ended' 
•-BemQcraeb 

status quo ante will promptly 
establish itself ... 76 Jessfield 
Road will be converted into a Little 
Theater, and at sunset the saucy 
Idzumo will pry herself loose from 
the bed of the Whangpoo and sail 
gaily out to sea, the jolly jack-tars 
joyously singing ‘God be with you 
till we meet again.’ The stage will 
then be set for the immediate re- 
turn of the evacuees, provided they 
can scrape up the money to pay 
their fares. Will they come?” 

It reads oddly now. Even sardonic 
Frank didn’t expect extraterritor- 
iality to fade out practically un- 
noticed in the spate of more press- 
ing and grimmer problems. He 
didn't, probably, expect to be now 
a prisoner of the Japanese. . . . 

B UT my column was a domestic 
one. It had to be, for the 
Mercury bulged with columns. 
China and society and everything 
else being all parceled out. Mr. 
Woodhead, who is now in England 
via Bridge House, hospital and 
Lourenco Marques, was doing the 
politics, and Micky Hahn, last heard 
from as a Hongkong nurse, was 
speaking "for Emancipated Wom- 
an, as well as for her monkeys.” 
(Mr. Mills, her well-dressed gibbon, 
died, I heard, in Hongkong before 
the siege.) 

Resuming on the Home front, 
any column of mine must be more 
domestic than ever; Old China 
Mothers will understand this. Out 
Where We Lived was^suggested as 
a title for this revival, but prone 
to reminiscence as \ve all are, we 
do, as the youngest critic pointed 
out, still Live. We still live Out, 
too — far enough out in the West- 
chester hills to breakfast withoyt 
a morning paper (even when 
there’s no strike) , call for. the mail 
at the postoffice, and have the 
plumbing frozen right this minute. 
This has its points. I can’t wash 
the socks; so I can write a column. 
That was my theory at least, and 
the youngest critic was pretty 
pleased about not having to brush 
his teeth nor dry the dishes, till 
his resourcefulness got the better 
of him and he betrayed his own 
interests by pointing out that all 
we had to do was melt some snow. 

For our domestic glory right now 
is snow: pristine and glistening, 
delicate on tracery of bare branch- 
es, heavy on great hemlocks in the 
old Quaker churchyard nextdoor. It 
creaks under footsteps as one goes 
out to shovel or to bring in the 



milk. Yesterday it fell, thick gray- 
white stillness shutting away the 
sorrows of the world; today it lies 
radiant under bright sun and blue, 
blue sky, patterned with tree-shad- 
ows, shaming the incredibility our 
man-made world. 

Mr. La Guardia, who has to cope 
with it, en masse and of course 
you Californians, don’t like it; but 
you’re in conflict, as the Neiv 
Yorker points out, with soldiers 
“dreaming of Irving Berlin's white 
Christmas . . . noisy nostalgic 
dreams,” with the young every- 
where, with all our memories of 
sleighbells, with a beauty so beau- 
tiful it makes you ache, equaled 
only by the glory of October. Now 
this I said to myself, is something 
to come home for. (Yet there was 
snow in Peking — on curving roofs 
above red doors in narrow, gray- 
walled hutings, as the ricksha sped 
along in cold, cold moonlight.) 



A NYWAY, home we are— unglam- 
orized, we mothers, even by 
overalls and the assembly line. Pet- 
ty and puttering our jobs seem, and 
large measure are; it is our mis- 
fortune that we know coolie-pidgin 
when we see it. We are scattered 
too, our PTA’s no longer one in 
SAS. And nobody's going to want 
this column now for the only use 
I ever discovered it was put to in 
Shanghai: sending it Home to save 
writing the petty news. But there 
must be a common demoniator still 
for Far East families, new prob- 
lems maybe arising out of the re- 
turn. Now and then in Shanghai 
someone would write in to this col- 
umn with an idea; that function, 
of clearinghouse for Back Where 
We Live problems, this column 
would gladly resume. 



ZJ.S. Personnel Enjoys 
Dancing In Chungking 



Got Any Brains? Here's 
A Real "Laliapalooza"! 



“Hello! I have no brains!" 

With this greeting the Amer- 
ican soldier will soon be de- 
lighting the humorous-minded 
population of China, if he fol- 
lows instructions officially con- 
veyed in a new booklet of the 
Special Service Division of the 
Army’s Services of Supply. 

That is not the intention of 
the Special Service Division. 
But it’s what will happen, in 
the view of Chinese in New 
York. 

The phrase to be used is giv- 
en in the booklet as — “Waw uh 
sher! May-ay gnaw King.” Ac- 
cording to the booklet the 
meaning of this is “I am an 
American soldier." But Chinese 
think that what the soldier will 
convey — if he is able to convey 
anything intelligible by such di- 
rections — is that he’s deficient 
in gray matter. 

Another little difficulty may 
arise because of the booklet’s 
advice to test persons under 
suspicion of being Japanese 
spies by making them say “lal- 
lapalooza." The theory is that 
all Chinese can say “lailapa- 
looza” but that Japanese will 
fail because they can’t pro- 
nounce “1." There is a small 
catch in this, due to the fact 
that Chinese of several prov- 
inces — including Szechuen, seat 
of the National Government — 
have about as much trouble 
with “1" as the Japanese do. So 
the arrival of American sol- 



diers equipped with the official 
booklet seems due to be attend- 
ed by no little fun, frolic and 
general excitement. 



Information Office 
Claims Woodhead 

H. G. W. Woodhead, C.B.E., ex-Eve- 
ning Post columnist, writes from 
Bexhill-on-Sea, England, that he is 
now working three days a week for 
the British Ministry of Informa- 
tion as head of the Far Eastern 
Reference Department. Three 
months' imprisonment in Shang- 
hai’s Bridge House as a prisoner of 
the Japanese left Mr. Woodhe^y 
health impaired and he f ia 
impossible to put in a full ^ 
his new post. 

"I am making goodl 
he reports, ‘but cannot 
side red 100 per ^ 

The veteran British newspar^ 
man had expected to consider^ 
able writing following his''X£turn to 
England on the Kamakura-, ex- 
change ship but says he has been 
greatly handicapped by a British 
Foreign Office ban against “dis- 
closures of Japanese maltreatment 
of Britons.” Life in the notorious 
Bridge House left Mr. Woodhead 
eminently qualified to discuss that 
exact subject at some length and 
the censorship, therefore, has cur- 
tailed a revealing article. 



Chungking, grimmest of all war 
capitals* since virtually all forms of 
gayety were banned by Chinese 
Government order in 1938, witness- 
ed its first dinner _dance in four 
years when General Shang Chen 
was host to Anglo-American mili- 
tary personnel on Christmas Day. 

General Shang, who broke the ice 
on the restrictions, is head of the 
Exterior Affairs Department of the 
National Military Council, and a 
ivorlte official among foreign mil- 
itary officers and correspondents. 

Chungking was celebrating three 
anniversaries on December 25th: 
birth of Christ, the release of the 
Generalissimo from Sian in 1936 
and the revolution Kunming | 
against local warlords in 1912. 



A daring expose of Nipponese atrocities — 

Ravaged Earth 

— the picture Hollywood could not make, 
produced by Mar k L. Moody from film 
shot on the scene in China. (Watch for it 
in your locality ! ) 



AMERICAN 

ASIATIC 

UNDERWRITERS 

FEDERAL INC., U. S. A. 



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in the Far East, the American Asiatic Underwriters, 
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regulations as result of enemy occupation. This situa- 
tion of course transcends the fortunes of any individual 
enterprise. Meanwhile, directors and officers of the 
American Asiatic Underwriters in the United States 
have made continuous efforts to keep abreast of all 
available facts and prepare for the post-war period. In 
conjunction with insurance companies and reinsurers, 
they are studying their responsibilities and keeping the 
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business can be resumed they will be in position to deal 
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